Bug 2536257 (CVE-2026-93185)

Summary: CVE-2026-93185 kernel: ASoC: rt700-sdw: always drain jack work on remove
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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 audio subsystem, specifically within the SoundWire (SDW) driver for the rt700 codec. This vulnerability arises when a SoundWire device is removed, as the system may fail to properly cancel all pending tasks associated with the device. Consequently, an active task object could remain in memory, leading to improper resource management. While the immediate impact is considered a defensive cleanup, this issue could potentially contribute to system instability under certain operational conditions.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 17:10:17 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ASoC: rt700-sdw: always drain jack work on remove

rt700_sdw_remove() drains jack_detect_work and jack_btn_check_work only
when rt700->hw_init is true. That state bit is cleared by
rt700_update_status() when the SoundWire slave becomes UNATTACHED, but a
jack work item can already have been queued by rt700_interrupt_callback()
or rt700_jack_init() while the device was initialized.

Do not use hw_init as the remove-time guard for draining these work
objects. The delayed works are initialized during rt700_init(), so remove
can cancel them unconditionally and pair the object lifetime with the
codec-private data lifetime instead of a mutable hardware state bit.

This issue was found by our static analysis tool and then confirmed by
manual review of the SoundWire status, interrupt and remove paths. The
remove path should drain work based on whether the work object exists, not
on a runtime hardware state bit that can change after the work was queued.

A QEMU PoC queued jack_detect_work, simulated SDW_SLAVE_UNATTACHED, and
then entered remove. DEBUG_OBJECTS reported an active timer/work object
associated with the rt700 jack work path after remove skipped the cancel.

This is sent as an RFC because the practical trigger depends on SoundWire
core remove ordering after an UNATTACHED status update. If remove cannot
run after hw_init has been cleared while jack work is still pending, this
is a defensive lifecycle cleanup rather than a reachable race on current
systems.