CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72395
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (pmbus) Fix passing events to regulator core
Sashiko reports:
Commit 754bd2b4a084 ("hwmon: (pmbus/core) Protect regulator operations with
mutex") introduced a worker to batch regulator events over time using
atomic_or(). The delayed worker then passes the combined bitmask unmodified
to regulator_notifier_call_chain().
The core regulator subsystem's regulator_handle_critical() function
evaluates the event parameter using a strict switch statement. If
multiple distinct faults occur before the worker runs (e.g.,
REGULATOR_EVENT_UNDER_VOLTAGE | REGULATOR_EVENT_OVER_CURRENT), the combined
bitmask fails to match any case. This leaves the reason as NULL and
completely bypasses the critical hw_protection_trigger().
Fix the problem by passing events bit by bit to the regulator event
handler.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2106bf4056858fcce3624e0c51f6fee4d41d3f2f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/489291b6b56978cc50d34e8e13f9636ea296ba8a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48fe43666950efefb7ac5fbdc012c1b3604096bf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ef7dacd44216bf5ea05c8aef49eba4d145f4047 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0ff6b6ae9c5183ef701ece7016698bde5a5bfba git.kernel.org