Bug 2513239 (CVE-2026-68356)

Summary: CVE-2026-68356 kernel: watchdog: airoha: Prevent division by zero when clock frequency is zero
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's airoha watchdog driver. This vulnerability occurs when the clock frequency is zero, causing the driver to attempt a division by zero. This can lead to a system crash, resulting in a denial of service for the affected system.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-10 12:26:31 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

watchdog: airoha: Prevent division by zero when clock frequency is zero

clk_get_rate() can return 0 when the clock provider is not properly
configured or the clock is unmanaged. The driver uses wdt_freq as a
divisor directly in airoha_wdt_probe() to compute max_timeout and in
airoha_wdt_get_timeleft() to compute the remaining time, which results
in a division by zero.

Add a check for wdt_freq == 0 in probe and return -EINVAL with
dev_err_probe() to prevent the division by zero and provide a
diagnostic message.