CVE-2026-45868 PUBLISHED

pinctrl: single: fix refcount leak in pcs_add_gpio_func()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pinctrl: single: fix refcount leak in pcs_add_gpio_func()

of_parse_phandle_with_args() returns a device_node pointer with refcount incremented in gpiospec.np. The loop iterates through all phandles but never releases the reference, causing a refcount leak on each iteration.

Add of_node_put() calls to release the reference after extracting the needed arguments and on the error path when devm_kzalloc() fails.

This bug was detected by our static analysis tool and verified by my code review.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from a1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 to 191bfd5710d6a7f48ba4315d8d3e908dcc15243c (excl.)
  • affected from a1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 to 3e3b28bb0b6ddc521a4fdd1c1ba0d35017a0796b (excl.)
  • affected from a1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 to 456a60d06c09a92680dc35fabca68024badcc28e (excl.)
  • affected from a1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 to 99cc7352156c65201c675f750e0e77c4c73d93f5 (excl.)
  • affected from a1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 to 7814b1431848854b56717086e2b61bea3c59753d (excl.)
  • affected from a1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 to e2e367e56bacb93ce5ac73f0b3297d5c83d38dd4 (excl.)
  • affected from a1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 to 5b9e84d27e310f22c4ba45fedbc4f5baf43dd823 (excl.)
  • affected from a1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 to 353353309b0f7afa407df29e455f9d15b5acc296 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.10 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.10 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.252 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.202 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.165 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.128 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.75 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.14 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.4 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

References