CVE-2026-98848 PUBLISHED

rtc: ac100: Assign .num before accessing .hws

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: ac100: Assign .num before accessing .hws

Commit f316cdff8d67 ("clk: Annotate struct clk_hw_onecell_data with __counted_by") annotated the hws member of 'struct clk_hw_onecell_data' with __counted_by, which informs the bounds sanitizer (UBSAN_BOUNDS) about the number of elements in .hws[], so that it can warn when .hws[] is accessed out of bounds. As noted in that change, the __counted_by member must be initialized with the number of elements before the first array access happens, otherwise there will be a warning from each access prior to the initialization because the number of elements is zero. This occurs in ac100_rtc_register_clks() due to .num being assigned only after every clkout clock has been stored in .hws[]. With CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and a compiler that implements __counted_by (GCC 15.1+ or Clang 20.1+), this triggers an array-index-out-of-bounds report during probe, and with CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP the first store traps.

Initialize .num with AC100_CLKOUT_NUM, the number of elements .hws[] was allocated with, right after the allocation. That is the value the loop counter ends up at on the success path anyway, so the provider's behaviour is unchanged.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f316cdff8d677db9ad9c90acb44c4cd535b0ee27 to 6bb55381daf1a1bed0657189a1396e7467712525 (excl.)
  • affected from f316cdff8d677db9ad9c90acb44c4cd535b0ee27 to 160619b38707241e22569f9c983a4b3d0890996a (excl.)
  • affected from f316cdff8d677db9ad9c90acb44c4cd535b0ee27 to ad1bf77039cba83373bf1eff3784655e3e3ed2ab (excl.)
  • affected from f316cdff8d677db9ad9c90acb44c4cd535b0ee27 to 6a4117eee82dd85f11bf898bf66026764011eeb6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.6 (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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