CVE-2026-92481 PUBLISHED

pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 16.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

pinctrl: mediatek: free EINT resources on unbind

mtk_eint_do_init() creates an IRQ domain, populates it with a mapping for every EINT line and installs a chained handler on the parent interrupt, but none of these are ever released. This was harmless while the drivers were built-in, but now that they can be built as modules and unbound/rmmod'd it leaves behind a dangling IRQ domain, interrupt mappings whose chip data points at freed memory, and a chained handler that keeps firing into that freed data.

The plain allocations in mtk_eint_do_init() already use the device-managed devm_*() helpers, so tear the remaining resources down the same way: register a devm action that detaches the chained handler, waits for any in-flight handler to finish, disposes of the per-line mappings and removes the IRQ domain. This mirrors the device-managed lifecycle adopted for the GPIO chip and keeps the whole EINT setup self-cleaning on unbind.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e46df235b4e605aa4e7609a27c118a1cccd4ff9a to 23252bc1cd9a58a039c9b1ae77b22d2b33da48e9 (excl.)
  • affected from e46df235b4e605aa4e7609a27c118a1cccd4ff9a to 903a7cdf63a81d3738594c5bd1b5955f58fda427 (excl.)
  • affected from e46df235b4e605aa4e7609a27c118a1cccd4ff9a to 51552c8c60d3b1fecc062eab2d8cfeaa1cb339dd (excl.)
  • affected from e46df235b4e605aa4e7609a27c118a1cccd4ff9a to 7f6d898179ca4771ee602bdad4246c3952af83eb (excl.)
  • affected from e46df235b4e605aa4e7609a27c118a1cccd4ff9a to e06785cba7f86d72abd531058b1a82d6952a7346 (excl.)
  • affected from e46df235b4e605aa4e7609a27c118a1cccd4ff9a to 88292b7103d260e3e606eb3bb2794060a5fde48e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.18 (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 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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