CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93273
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
regulator: tps6594: Fix device node reference leaks in multiphase loop
In tps6594_regulator_probe(), the multi-phase configuration loop calls
of_find_node_by_name() to find buck nodes by name, and of_get_parent()
twice to navigate to the PMIC parent node. None of the acquired node
references (np, intermediate parent, np_pmic_parent) are ever released
via of_node_put(), causing a reference leak on every loop iteration.
Additionally, of_find_node_by_name() can return NULL, but the result was
immediately passed to of_node_full_name() and of_get_parent() without a
NULL check, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference.
Fix this by:
- Adding a NULL check for np after of_find_node_by_name()
- Storing the intermediate parent node in a local variable np_parent
- Calling of_node_put() on np, np_parent and np_pmic_parent at the
end of each loop iteration
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28f70e0aa767a8f022c70ed75ecef227dc668121 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a672bff99f6b58dde419fd12b3a53da137f032d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68ce4f8223b78f8616ec7f4a02c38988eae627d2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fd28093b3effc4f92566466df364622830ec608 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fceac25487b21d6db940d2aed368e465d89cd1f4 git.kernel.org