CVE-2026-93081 PUBLISHED

firmware: arm_scmi: Fix SCMI device destroy lifetimes

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 SCMI device destroy lifetimes

scmi_child_dev_find() drops the reference returned by device_find_child() before returning the scmi_device pointer. A concurrent unregister can then release the device while the destroy path is still using the returned pointer.

Make the lookup helper return the device_find_child() reference and keep it until scmi_device_destroy() has finished unregistering the child.

Also split device_unregister() in __scmi_device_destroy() so the SCMI bus ID is not made reusable until after device_del() has removed the old scmi_dev.N name from sysfs. This avoids a new SCMI device reusing the same ID while the old device is still registered.

The final device release callback is also a possible cleanup path when SCMI children are deleted by driver core recursion rather than __scmi_device_destroy(). Release the SCMI bus ID from a common helper used by destroy, register-failure and final-release paths, and clear scmi_dev->id after freeing it so the final release cannot free the same ID again.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9ca67840c0ddf3f39407339624cef824a4f27599 to c59b3393df1348a12308aaabd5fbc58ed6b21cf5 (excl.)
  • affected from 9ca67840c0ddf3f39407339624cef824a4f27599 to 6abe8fe36b29ff51d1a42c2f338972883f4751a5 (excl.)
  • Version 91ff1e9652fb9beb0174267d6bb38243dff211bb is affected
  • Version ff4273d47da81b95ed9396110bcbd1b7b7470fe8 is affected
  • Version 2fbf6c9695ad9f05e7e5c166bf43fac7cb3276b3 is affected
  • Version 969d8beaa2e374387bf9aa5602ef84fc50bb48d8 is affected
  • Version 8a8a3547d5c4960da053df49c75bf623827a25da is affected
  • affected from 5.15.182 to 5.16 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.1.138 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.6.90 to 6.7 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.12.28 to 6.13 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.14.6 to 6.15 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.15 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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