CVE-2026-98680 PUBLISHED

iio: accel: kionix-kx022a: Prevent memory leak and fix state

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

iio: accel: kionix-kx022a: Prevent memory leak and fix state

The driver allocates memory for samples at buffer enable path. If regmap operation fails in the kx022a_fifo_enable() at the buffer enable path, the allocated memory is never freed. Furthermore, the state information and previous hardware configuration(s) aren't undone, potentially leaving WMI interrupts and buffers enabled, or driver state flags wrong.

Free the memory and revert the hardware configuration and state flags on error path.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e7123a4dfcd732c4d10620748588e3715f362802 to e3bc345d08639e62b629e0ec0799f7fb45e21372 (excl.)
  • affected from e7123a4dfcd732c4d10620748588e3715f362802 to 5c7ca8fe72064c1c3c7a7418031f692bb2bff260 (excl.)
  • affected from e7123a4dfcd732c4d10620748588e3715f362802 to 2ef953f7b54e1460718116b4c0a4c63b106348fc (excl.)
  • affected from e7123a4dfcd732c4d10620748588e3715f362802 to e65e128b51a37dd1a9056ac3d1705d805a5c8bb0 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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