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CVE-2026-53226

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel GPIO driver for Rockchip, a memory leak of generic IRQ chip structures was found. These structures are not freed on driver removal, potentially leading to use-after-free and kernel crash.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes kernel memory leaks and potential system crashes (kernel crash) due to accessing freed structures after GPIO bank removal.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that adds irq_domain_remove_generic_chips() call before removing the IRQ domain in rockchip_gpio_remove().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: rockchip: fix generic IRQ chip leak on remove The driver allocates domain generic chips using irq_alloc_domain_generic_chips() during probe. However, on driver remove/teardown, the generic chips are not automatically freed when the IRQ domain is removed because the domain flags do not include IRQ_DOMAIN_FLAG_DESTROY_GC. This causes both the domain generic chips structure and the associated generic chips to be leaked. Additionally, the generic chips remain on the global gc_list and may later be visited by generic IRQ chip suspend, resume, or shutdown callbacks after the GPIO bank has been removed, potentially resulting in a use-after-free and kernel crash. Fix the resource leak by explicitly calling irq_domain_remove_generic_chips() before removing the IRQ domain in rockchip_gpio_remove().

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