Bug 2559686 (CVE-2026-98931) - CVE-2026-98931 kernel: mtd: spinand: fix NULL pointer dereference with no ECC engine
Summary: CVE-2026-98931 kernel: mtd: spinand: fix NULL pointer dereference with no ECC...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98931
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 DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-23 13:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-27 14:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 13:02:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mtd: spinand: fix NULL pointer dereference with no ECC engine

When "nand-no-ecc-engine" is set in DT, nanddev_get_ecc_engine() takes
the NAND_ECC_ENGINE_TYPE_NONE path and returns success while leaving
nand->ecc.engine NULL. The SPI-NAND code nevertheless dereferences it
unconditionally to test for a pipelined engine, so probing such a
device oopses immediately.

Rather than open-coding the test three times, add a
nand_ecc_is_pipelined() helper to the NAND core that folds the NULL
check into the integration comparison, and use it everywhere. Future
callers then cannot reintroduce the problem.


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