Bug 2532511 (CVE-2026-89522) - CVE-2026-89522 kernel: Linux Kernel: Use-after-free in ipu7 driver due to improper notifier cleanup
Summary: CVE-2026-89522 kernel: Linux Kernel: Use-after-free in ipu7 driver due to imp...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-89522
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-11 23:35 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-11 23:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 23:35:17 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: staging/ipu7: fix async notifier UAF on probe error path

isys_register_devices() registers the V4L2 async notifier via
isys_notifier_init(). If a subsequent probe step such as
isys_fw_log_init() fails, isys_probe() jumps to the out_cleanup label
which only calls isys_unregister_devices(). That helper tears down the
video devices, subdevices, V4L2 device and media device, but never
unregisters or cleans up the async notifier.

As a result the notifier stays chained in the global notifier_list while
the enclosing struct ipu7_isys is freed by devres, leading to list
corruption and a use-after-free the next time the list is walked.

The remove path already does the right thing by calling
isys_notifier_cleanup() before isys_unregister_devices(). Mirror that on
the probe error path so the notifier is unregistered and cleaned up
before the device is torn down.


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