Bug 2425129 (CVE-2023-54079) - CVE-2023-54079 kernel: power: supply: bq27xxx: Fix poll_interval handling and races on remove
Summary: CVE-2023-54079 kernel: power: supply: bq27xxx: Fix poll_interval handling and...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-54079
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-24 14:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-29 19:02 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 14:05:08 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

power: supply: bq27xxx: Fix poll_interval handling and races on remove

Before this patch bq27xxx_battery_teardown() was setting poll_interval = 0
to avoid bq27xxx_battery_update() requeuing the delayed_work item.

There are 2 problems with this:

1. If the driver is unbound through sysfs, rather then the module being
   rmmod-ed, this changes poll_interval unexpectedly

2. This is racy, after it being set poll_interval could be changed
   before bq27xxx_battery_update() checks it through
   /sys/module/bq27xxx_battery/parameters/poll_interval

Fix this by added a removed attribute to struct bq27xxx_device_info and
using that instead of setting poll_interval to 0.

There also is another poll_interval related race on remove(), writing
/sys/module/bq27xxx_battery/parameters/poll_interval will requeue
the delayed_work item for all devices on the bq27xxx_battery_devices
list and the device being removed was only removed from that list
after cancelling the delayed_work item.

Fix this by moving the removal from the bq27xxx_battery_devices list
to before cancelling the delayed_work item.


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