Bug 2540397 (CVE-2026-97502)

Summary: CVE-2026-97502 kernel: mmc: davinci: avoid NULL deref of host->data in IRQ handler
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's DaVinci MultiMediaCard (MMC) driver. When processing hardware interrupt events such as read timeouts or communication errors, the driver accesses a data pointer without verifying that an active transfer structure exists. A local user or abnormal device condition can trigger these error states, causing a NULL pointer dereference that crashes the system and leads to a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-24 16:40:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mmc: davinci: avoid NULL deref of host->data in IRQ handler

mmc_davinci_irq() returns early only when both host->cmd and
host->data are NULL:

  if (host->cmd == NULL && host->data == NULL) {
          ...
          return IRQ_NONE;
  }

So we may legitimately reach the rest of the handler with
host->data == NULL (and therefore data == NULL). The DATDNE branch
already guards against this with an explicit "if (data != NULL)"
check, but the subsequent TOUTRD ("read data timeout") and
CRCWR/CRCRD ("data CRC error") branches dereference data
unconditionally:

  if (qstatus & MMCST0_TOUTRD) {
          data->error = -ETIMEDOUT;        <-- NULL deref
          ...
          davinci_abort_data(host, data);
  }

  if (qstatus & (MMCST0_CRCWR | MMCST0_CRCRD)) {
          data->error = -EILSEQ;           <-- NULL deref
          ...
  }

If either bit is set in qstatus while host->data is NULL, the kernel
will crash inside the IRQ handler. smatch flags this:

  drivers/mmc/host/davinci_mmc.c:933 mmc_davinci_irq() error: we
    previously assumed 'data' could be null (see line 914)

Gate both branches on a non-NULL data, matching the existing pattern
used by the DATDNE branch.

No functional change for callers where data is non-NULL, which is
the only case in which these branches did meaningful work before
this change.