Bug 2536791 (CVE-2026-92481) - CVE-2026-92481 kernel: pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind
Summary: CVE-2026-92481 kernel: pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-92481
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 19:33 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-20 11:12 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 19:33:57 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind

mtk_eint_do_init() creates an IRQ domain, populates it with a mapping for
every EINT line and installs a chained handler on the parent interrupt,
but none of these are ever released. This was harmless while the drivers
were built-in, but now that they can be built as modules and
unbound/rmmod'd it leaves behind a dangling IRQ domain, interrupt mappings
whose chip data points at freed memory, and a chained handler that keeps
firing into that freed data.

The plain allocations in mtk_eint_do_init() already use the device-managed
devm_*() helpers, so tear the remaining resources down the same way:
register a devm action that detaches the chained handler, waits for any
in-flight handler to finish, disposes of the per-line mappings and removes
the IRQ domain. This mirrors the device-managed lifecycle adopted for the
GPIO chip and keeps the whole EINT setup self-cleaning on unbind.


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