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CVE-2026-93142

Unknown
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In the Linux kernel's rcar thermal driver, there is an error checking issue in probe(). The thermal_zone_device_enable() function is called before checking if thermal zone registration succeeded, which could lead to an error pointer dereference.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to system crashes or improper thermal management on platforms using this driver.

Recommendation

Install the patch that moves the thermal_zone_device_enable() call after error checking and simplifies the cleanup path.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/drivers/rcar: Fix error checking in probe() This code accidentally calls thermal_zone_device_enable() before checking whether thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() failed. Move the call until later to avoid an error pointer dereference of "priv->zone". The driver works differently depending on if we are using OF thermal or not. We use thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs() if we are using OF thermal and call thermal_zone_device_enable() if not. We can share same error check for if either of these fail. Moving the thermal_zone_device_enable() call is a bit cleaner as well. The original code used a three step process to cleanup: 1. Call thermal_zone_device_unregister() to cleanup. 2. Set priv->zone to an error pointer to preserve the error code. 3. Set priv->zone to NULL to avoid a second call to thermal_zone_device_unregister() in the rcar_thermal_remove() function. Now we can just do a direct goto error_unregister and rcar_thermal_remove() handles the cleanup properly.

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