CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97582
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (gpio-fan) Fix use-after-free in alarm work
fan_alarm_irq_handler() queues fan_data->alarm_work, but nothing
cancels it. fan_alarm_notify() dereferences fan_data and its hwmon
device. On unbind, devres frees the interrupt, which only waits for
the handler itself, and then releases the hwmon device and fan_data,
so a pending fan_alarm_notify() can run after those frees.
Replace INIT_WORK() with devm_work_autocancel(), registered before
devm_request_irq(). The devres cleanup then frees the interrupt
first, so no new work can be queued, and cancels the work while
fan_data and the hwmon device are still alive.
This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30755d3a5782cd704c8921cac8ee66dffe4383ea git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/594c62eea7c82f526054496e9fa9b895122a8016 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e67d9bdac810edacef78cbaeedd34445aa8ceb7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b12bd724db9db318e3a68be17693583dc29a066 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2471ed17b0e6ff7bfb6b2ea8e6e5b04c309d293 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6ab7f855891877a16d2e2ddf0cd0305fd098a85 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9fc7d53b2eb34c0a607d1659f49b46911aaf16c git.kernel.org