Bug 2517075 (CVE-2026-74519) - CVE-2026-74519 kernel: pinctrl: devicetree: don't free uninitialized dev_name on error path
Summary: CVE-2026-74519 kernel: pinctrl: devicetree: don't free uninitialized dev_name...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74519
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 12:48 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 14:48 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 12:48:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pinctrl: devicetree: don't free uninitialized dev_name on error path

dt_remember_or_free_map() duplicates dev_name for each map entry. If
kstrdup_const() fails, dt_free_map() frees dev_name in all num_maps
entries, including entries that have not been initialized.

Some pinctrl drivers, including pinctrl-imx, allocate the map with
kmalloc() and leave dev_name for the core to initialize. The untouched
entries therefore contain uninitialized data which is passed to
kfree_const().

Reproduced on qemu's mcimx6ul-evk (pinctrl-imx) with failslab injection
while binding the pinctrl-consuming device, under KASAN:

  BUG: KASAN: double-free in dt_free_map+0x34/0xa4
  Free of addr c425a900 by task init/1
   kfree from dt_free_map+0x34/0xa4
   dt_free_map from dt_remember_or_free_map+0x184/0x198
   dt_remember_or_free_map from pinctrl_dt_to_map+0x33c/0x4c8
   pinctrl_dt_to_map from create_pinctrl+0x9c/0x5c0

Initialize all dev_name fields to NULL before duplicating the device
name, making the full-map cleanup safe after a partial failure.


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