CVE-2026-45882

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: pm8916_bms_vm: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed() Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_` variant for allocating/registering the `power_supply` handle, means that the `power_supply` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the interrupt handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse allocation order). This means that during removal, there is a race condition where an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `power_supply` handle has been freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding unregistration of the IRQ handler has run. This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `power_supply_changed()` with a freed `power_supply` handle. Which usually crashes the system or otherwise silently corrupts the memory... Note that there is a similar situation which can also happen during `probe()`; the possibility of an interrupt firing _before_ registering the `power_supply` handle. This would then lead to the nasty situation of using the `power_supply` handle *uninitialized* in `power_supply_changed()`. Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_ the registration of the `power_supply` handle.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b69bb88e20c6f8e998dff3e13a316207f49d3fa2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8b7117ae3a791c6a328674d05a06cd45d8241bd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17db6b3abd823c9fba3f3413c4f0f432d99d49dc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62914959b35e9a1e29cc0f64cb8cfc5075a5366f
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-45882
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45882.html