Bug 2502199 (CVE-2026-53400) - CVE-2026-53400 kernel: i2c: core: fix adapter registration race
Summary: CVE-2026-53400 kernel: i2c: core: fix adapter registration race
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53400
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-07-19 13:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-20 14:23 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 13:01:27 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i2c: core: fix adapter registration race

Adapters can be looked up based on their id using i2c_get_adapter()
which takes a reference to the embedded struct device.

Make sure that the adapter (including its struct device) has been
initialised before adding it to the IDR to avoid accessing uninitialised
data which could, for example, lead to NULL-pointer dereferences or
use-after-free.

Note that the i2c-dev chardev, which is registered from a bus notifier,
currently uses i2c_get_adapter() so the adapter needs to be added to the
IDR before registration.


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