CVE-2026-64023: gpio: aggregator: fix a potential use-after-free

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cve-announce
Message-ID <2026071902-CVE-2026-64023-8096@gregkh>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Description
===========

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

gpio: aggregator: fix a potential use-after-free

On error we free aggr->lookups->dev_id before removing the entry from
the lookup table. If a concurrent thread calls gpiod_find() before we
remove the entry, it could iterate over the list and call
gpiod_match_lookup_table() which unconditionally dereferences dev_id
when calling strcmp(). Reverse the order of cleanup.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-64023 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 86f162e73d2d81ef6d819c06a3b6c2fda77a79b8 and fixed in 6.18.34 with commit ea28b286649b70618e9dd3e895812417a7712a11
	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 86f162e73d2d81ef6d819c06a3b6c2fda77a79b8 and fixed in 7.0.11 with commit 7ac4183a41ba048af89eddd82fe8be64619d0871
	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 86f162e73d2d81ef6d819c06a3b6c2fda77a79b8 and fixed in 7.1 with commit 30c073cab97afb31901f94de9605177b6b84367e

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-64023
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea28b286649b70618e9dd3e895812417a7712a11
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ac4183a41ba048af89eddd82fe8be64619d0871
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30c073cab97afb31901f94de9605177b6b84367e
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