CVE-2026-89824 PUBLISHED

drm/panel-edp: fix i2c adapter leak on probe failure

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

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

drm/panel-edp: fix i2c adapter leak on probe failure

Make sure to drop the i2c adapter reference on probe failure (e.g. probe deferral) and on driver unbind also if a devicetree redundantly uses the 'ddc-i2c-bus' property to point to the aux ddc bus.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from cc5a3fc041f0104d97ac61b0423ec533d7a93214 to f933d0f6fcd6280ce709553d394c30e9f7cc1b8c (excl.)
  • affected from cc5a3fc041f0104d97ac61b0423ec533d7a93214 to 8d9e6dffaea9b1282f8dc82f2d5e3cbd64e11fb3 (excl.)
  • affected from cc5a3fc041f0104d97ac61b0423ec533d7a93214 to e048a11cf4649e03f194e16eb809e57ffc9eb5b6 (excl.)
  • affected from cc5a3fc041f0104d97ac61b0423ec533d7a93214 to 0259846b15a665c6762a86b3fa0eb8b674b35d1c (excl.)
  • affected from cc5a3fc041f0104d97ac61b0423ec533d7a93214 to 972afe6d5314037556bf6b3e635d7a06547064ee (excl.)
  • affected from cc5a3fc041f0104d97ac61b0423ec533d7a93214 to e2a9e291275a74e309a21cbb1def6296a72d6aed (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.15 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.51 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.5 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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