CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72063
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-23
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpio: tegra: do not call pinctrl for GPIO direction
tegra_gpio_direction_input() and tegra_gpio_direction_output() already
program the GPIO controller direction registers directly. The additional
pinctrl_gpio_direction_input/output() calls do not add a Tegra pinctrl
operation, because the Tegra pinmux ops provide GPIO request/free
handling but no gpio_set_direction hook.
The extra call still enters the pinctrl core and takes pctldev->mutex.
Shared GPIO users can call the direction path while holding their
per-line spinlock, so this otherwise redundant pinctrl direction call can
sleep in an atomic context.
This was found by our static analysis tool and then confirmed by manual
review of tegra_gpio_probe(), the Tegra GPIO direction callbacks and the
Tegra pinctrl ops. The reviewed path has a default non-sleeping
struct gpio_chip while the direction callback still enters the pinctrl
mutex path.
A directed runtime validation kept the same non-sleeping chip registration
and drove:
gpio_shared_proxy_direction_output()
gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit()
tegra_gpio_direction_output()
pinctrl_gpio_direction_output()
Lockdep reported a sleep-in-atomic warning with the shared GPIO spinlock
held and pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range() plus tegra_gpio_direction_output()
on the stack.
Do not mark the whole chip as can_sleep to paper over this: can_sleep
describes whether get()/set() may sleep, and Tegra value access is MMIO.
Remove the redundant pinctrl direction calls and keep pinctrl involvement
in the existing request/free path.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/616188becd4a208afbae1653fc5241e1748bae80 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/628c63f96f4564fa145f602af2d41daf9532201f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89904b4f1dc0f9550c3f206dcdfceed0b7ce7c49 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac761e66708d51dac35c4c7f1891ea991dc788f0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd17c5a1d9f186b57e9e2949be427803b7110a5c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b92d16e1c4debec7526b6dbb2d98d0aeed796b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3e91a95b2b0fc6336dbf3ec90d831a1654d2720 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e57a4845b0da60a7b9f052160878097826320954 git.kernel.org