Bug 2536393 (CVE-2026-93091) - CVE-2026-93091 kernel: firmware: arm_scmi: Quiesce notifications before teardown
Summary: CVE-2026-93091 kernel: firmware: arm_scmi: Quiesce notifications before teardown
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-93091
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-09-17 17:42 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-20 11:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 17:42:39 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: arm_scmi: Quiesce notifications before teardown

scmi_notification_exit() clears and releases the notification instance,
but transport callbacks can still deliver incoming notifications until
the TX/RX channels are freed. During remove, an RX interrupt in that
window can enter scmi_notify() while notification state is being torn
down and then dereference freed memory. The same ordering exists on the
probe error path after notification initialization.

The notification late-init worker has a separate lifetime issue: protocol
event registration queues ni->init_work on the system workqueue, so
destroying ni->notify_wq does not drain that work. If the devres group is
released while init_work is still pending or running, the late-init worker
can dereference the freed notification instance.

Quiesce the notification core before TX/RX channels are torn down, then
clean up the channels before releasing the notification core resources.
Use disable_work_sync() so future late-init queueing is rejected and any
already queued or running late-init work has completed before channel
teardown starts.


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