CVE-2026-90331 PUBLISHED

HID: asus: refactor the two workqueues and init sequence

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

HID: asus: refactor the two workqueues and init sequence

Multiple issues have been found within the hid-asus driver: - unchecked size in asus_raw_event() - unclean teardown of asus_probe on failure - possible use-after-free in asus_probe - multiple workqueue used for jobs where one was enough - sleeping calls in atomic context - packets of incorrect size being sent to the keyboard controller

Join the two workqueues into one reusing the stopping mechanism of the brightness workqueue, use the joined workqueue to also move the asus_wmi_send_event() sleeping call away from atomic context and add a size check in asus_raw_event().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1489a34e97efebf583ff08e506ecf9f7d44537d3 to 744b3f930c1173ad57f49b614fc875d8d2715396 (excl.)
  • affected from 1489a34e97efebf583ff08e506ecf9f7d44537d3 to 47669bec44fe12fe2c7adf2b299e980d7935a2ce (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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