FKIE_CVE-2026-64373
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-25 10:17 - Updated: 2026-09-08 15:23
Severity
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: Fix hotplug-suspend race during reboot
During system reboot, cpufreq_suspend() is called via the
kernel_restart() -> device_shutdown() path. Unlike the normal system
suspend path, the reboot path does not call freeze_processes(), so
userspace processes and kernel threads remain active.
This allows CPU hotplug operations to run concurrently with
cpufreq_suspend(). The original code has no synchronization with CPU
hotplug, leading to a race condition where governor_data can be freed
by the hotplug path while cpufreq_suspend() is still accessing it,
resulting in a null pointer dereference:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
Call Trace:
do_kernel_fault+0x28/0x3c
cpufreq_suspend+0xdc/0x160
device_shutdown+0x18/0x200
kernel_restart+0x40/0x80
arm64_sys_reboot+0x1b0/0x200
Fix this by adding cpus_read_lock()/cpus_read_unlock() to
cpufreq_suspend() to block CPU hotplug operations while suspend is in
progress.
[ rjw: Changelog edits ]
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.4 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.4 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.4 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.4 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.4 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.4 |
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