CVE-2026-98847 PUBLISHED

rtc: spear: initialize IRQ state before requesting alarm IRQ

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

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

rtc: spear: initialize IRQ state before requesting alarm IRQ

devm_request_irq() enables the interrupt before it returns, so the handler may run while probe is still initializing the device. Initialize the MMIO address and spinlock before requesting the alarm IRQ.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0942a71e435f5198921e8f072540f208f0176542 to c02aa67ea34a826c2cb1aa65d77cf32fafb7eec3 (excl.)
  • affected from 0942a71e435f5198921e8f072540f208f0176542 to e0cabda9b6f4dd276c55c40bdbb251e8507ae60e (excl.)
  • affected from 0942a71e435f5198921e8f072540f208f0176542 to cb6d6a7fbff0414b9eed505d17687b4b7e38fee8 (excl.)
  • affected from 0942a71e435f5198921e8f072540f208f0176542 to 055ef5ce9f67a6a3a1363fa663007f8196cc0fb8 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 3.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 3.0 (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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