CVE-2026-98209 PUBLISHED

mmc: sdhci-of-aspeed: Remove children before releasing SDC resources

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

mmc: sdhci-of-aspeed: Remove children before releasing SDC resources

Probe failure and removal leave SDHCI child devices registered after the parent clock and managed resources are released.

Unregister the OF children in reverse order before disabling the parent clock on both paths. Use of_platform_device_destroy() because manual child creation does not set the flag required by of_platform_depopulate().

This issue was identified during our ongoing static-analysis research while reviewing kernel code.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from bb7b8ec62dfb9b255027c3a54d01f12fc3bd1d2c to 6b22b4d29e4fc1d2de2e4d7174925d68220165fb (excl.)
  • affected from bb7b8ec62dfb9b255027c3a54d01f12fc3bd1d2c to 67e8117df8547433989a6ac1545a68848d0a289f (excl.)
  • affected from bb7b8ec62dfb9b255027c3a54d01f12fc3bd1d2c to bc5e79a5a5651588f3a93bef7815e4e86f78962c (excl.)
  • affected from bb7b8ec62dfb9b255027c3a54d01f12fc3bd1d2c to b84d29f2541c8adb768e468388dbaa4bc25ef157 (excl.)
  • affected from bb7b8ec62dfb9b255027c3a54d01f12fc3bd1d2c to 7eb896617a6db846b18596c10ca9f8900a73013e (excl.)
  • affected from bb7b8ec62dfb9b255027c3a54d01f12fc3bd1d2c to 15b5ffd8af2dd46856da57467eb6e0f90d8ada51 (excl.)
  • affected from bb7b8ec62dfb9b255027c3a54d01f12fc3bd1d2c to 356b4b3b28a8ecd2a6c66d3b9666686315337df1 (excl.)
  • affected from bb7b8ec62dfb9b255027c3a54d01f12fc3bd1d2c to 4396d70bb7fec531bcf934fed016b2f3300c670b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.4 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.4 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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