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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: pm8916_lbc: Fix use-after-free for extcon in IRQ handler Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_` variant for allocating/registering the `extcon` handle, means that the `extcon` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the interrupt handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse allocation order). This means that during removal, there is a race condition where an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `extcon` handle has been freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding unregistration of the IRQ handler has run. This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `extcon_set_state_sync()` with a freed `extcon` handle. Which usually crashes the system or otherwise silently corrupts the memory... Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_ the registration of the `extcon` handle.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-13 | Published 2026-06-03 | Updated 2026-06-03 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

f8d7a3d21160a0cab4d15b81231f2a76b0fcee13 (git) before 9fab0120907e6965168e55b1e17cb9dfaf262b86
affected

f8d7a3d21160a0cab4d15b81231f2a76b0fcee13 (git) before 47abfc207ab02cf1297257e282e8048da63f0d08
affected

f8d7a3d21160a0cab4d15b81231f2a76b0fcee13 (git) before 48e0f68b50c344bb2d78d65dd98f93e41276ee00
affected

f8d7a3d21160a0cab4d15b81231f2a76b0fcee13 (git) before 23067259919663580c6f81801847cfc7bd54fd1f
affected

Default status
affected

6.7
affected

Any version before 6.7
unaffected

6.12.75 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.14 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.4 (semver)
unaffected

7.0 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/9fab0120907e6965168e55b1e17cb9dfaf262b86

git.kernel.org/...c/47abfc207ab02cf1297257e282e8048da63f0d08

git.kernel.org/...c/48e0f68b50c344bb2d78d65dd98f93e41276ee00

git.kernel.org/...c/23067259919663580c6f81801847cfc7bd54fd1f

cve.org (CVE-2026-46246)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-46246)

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