CVE-2026-90433 PUBLISHED

spi: oc-tiny: switch to managed controller allocation

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

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

spi: oc-tiny: switch to managed controller allocation

The controller is allocated with the non-managed spi_alloc_host() while the interrupt is registered with devm_request_irq(). During removal, spi_bitbang_stop() only unregisters the controller; the subsequent spi_controller_put() then frees the controller together with its embedded driver-private devdata, which is the IRQ handler's dev_id. The devm_request_irq() release action (free_irq()), which drains the handler, does not run until after .remove() returns. A late or latched interrupt can therefore reach tiny_spi_irq() and dereference already-freed memory (e.g. hw->base).

Switch to devm_spi_alloc_host() so that the devres LIFO order releases the controller only after free_irq() has drained the handler, and drop the now-redundant spi_controller_put() from .remove(). The probe error path is simplified to direct returns.

This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ce792580ea2ce6f7259b45124e9ccc4574c31606 to 0260c94453a08491640e61f8cf0c384edbe7bd11 (excl.)
  • affected from ce792580ea2ce6f7259b45124e9ccc4574c31606 to ef5cc4a8c088d05549f71950a72b5deff5000fd7 (excl.)
  • affected from ce792580ea2ce6f7259b45124e9ccc4574c31606 to 1cd16c8d68f58e54abb8f331d05469237200631f (excl.)
  • affected from ce792580ea2ce6f7259b45124e9ccc4574c31606 to d710f43ce30975d197f73c543bfe47b958d8ba17 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.39 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.39 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

References