CVE-2026-93080 PUBLISHED

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix transport device teardown lookup

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

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

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix transport device teardown lookup

SCMI transport devices are deliberately excluded from normal SCMI bus matching so protocol drivers cannot bind to the internal transport children. However, scmi_device_destroy() uses the same protocol/name lookup to find devices that must be unregistered during channel teardown.

Split the match helper so driver matching still skips transport devices, while explicit child lookup can find them for teardown. Use a shared transport-device name prefix macro for both matching and name generation.

Since transport-device names are derived from direction and protocol ID, reject duplicate protocol channel setup before creating or finding a transport device. This prevents malformed firmware with duplicate protocol child nodes from reusing an existing transport device and then destroying it when the duplicate IDR insertion fails.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9593804c44c24545e1b0496786dcb765d7b0e193 to c656427440ea627166394d00c4b72147d5d79c60 (excl.)
  • affected from 9593804c44c24545e1b0496786dcb765d7b0e193 to 4635953b4c1af477e166073521a77de6279f6929 (excl.)
  • affected from 9593804c44c24545e1b0496786dcb765d7b0e193 to a14dd8fe0a95db638c550ed984cfe2a7428c783d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • 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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