CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98848
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtc: ac100: Assign .num before accessing .hws
Commit f316cdff8d67 ("clk: Annotate struct clk_hw_onecell_data with
__counted_by") annotated the hws member of 'struct clk_hw_onecell_data'
with __counted_by, which informs the bounds sanitizer (UBSAN_BOUNDS)
about the number of elements in .hws[], so that it can warn when .hws[]
is accessed out of bounds. As noted in that change, the __counted_by
member must be initialized with the number of elements before the first
array access happens, otherwise there will be a warning from each access
prior to the initialization because the number of elements is zero.
This occurs in ac100_rtc_register_clks() due to .num being assigned only
after every clkout clock has been stored in .hws[]. With
CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and a compiler that implements __counted_by (GCC
15.1+ or Clang 20.1+), this triggers an array-index-out-of-bounds report
during probe, and with CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP the first store traps.
Initialize .num with AC100_CLKOUT_NUM, the number of elements .hws[] was
allocated with, right after the allocation. That is the value the loop
counter ends up at on the success path anyway, so the provider's
behaviour is unchanged.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/160619b38707241e22569f9c983a4b3d0890996a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a4117eee82dd85f11bf898bf66026764011eeb6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bb55381daf1a1bed0657189a1396e7467712525 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad1bf77039cba83373bf1eff3784655e3e3ed2ab git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e77c5fc1f39fdb06ecd1f55b101eea1e1db2ffef git.kernel.org