CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98971
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-23
- Last modified
- 2026-10-23
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpio: exar: initialize the ID before registering its cleanup
devm_add_action_or_reset() invokes the cleanup action immediately when
registering the action fails. gpio_exar_probe() currently stores the
allocated ID in exar_gpio only after registering the action, so that
failure makes exar_devm_ida_free() release ID 0. If the allocated ID is
nonzero, this leaks that ID and can free ID 0 belonging to another device.
Store the ID before registering the cleanup action so both the immediate
failure path and normal device teardown release the correct allocation.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01318927a9055136c207399eeb36ce07becac179 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d69e74034b208588636ecc177e0dd43a7696af3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b78c114600ae3df90c083c72c290437b068577c8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf3d841ef12fcbec4458e2750956b738b043a226 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7ec4dbd2a073dd53b6349be1c586fe8580dd6b2 git.kernel.org