GHSA-7GCX-PFRF-W3C4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-06 09:30 – Updated: 2026-08-06 09:30
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: adc: spear: Initialize completion before requesting IRQ

In the report from Jaeyoung Chung:

"spear_adc_probe() in drivers/iio/adc/spear_adc.c registers its interrupt handler with devm_request_irq() before it initializes st->completion with init_completion(). If an interrupt arrives after devm_request_irq() and before init_completion(), the handler calls complete() on an uninitialized completion, causing a kernel panic.

The probe path, in spear_adc_probe():

iodev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*st)); /* st kzalloc-zeroed */
...
retval = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, irq, spear_adc_isr, 0,
                          LPC32XXAD_NAME, st);           /* register handler */
...
init_completion(&st->completion);                       /* initialize completion */

spear_adc_isr() calls complete():

complete(&st->completion);

If the device raises an interrupt before init_completion() runs, complete() acquires the uninitialized wait.lock and walks the zeroed task_list in swake_up_locked(). The zeroed task_list makes list_empty() return false, so swake_up_locked() dereferences a NULL list entry, triggering a KASAN wild-memory-access."

Fix the chance of a spurious IRQ causing an uninitialized pointer dereference by moving init_completion() above devm_request_irq().

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-64602"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-08-06T08:16:35Z",
    "severity": null
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: adc: spear: Initialize completion before requesting IRQ\n\nIn the report from Jaeyoung Chung:\n\n\"spear_adc_probe() in drivers/iio/adc/spear_adc.c registers its\ninterrupt handler with devm_request_irq() before it initializes\nst-\u003ecompletion with init_completion(). If an interrupt arrives after\ndevm_request_irq() and before init_completion(), the handler calls\ncomplete() on an uninitialized completion, causing a kernel panic.\n\nThe probe path, in spear_adc_probe():\n\n    iodev = devm_iio_device_alloc(\u0026pdev-\u003edev, sizeof(*st)); /* st kzalloc-zeroed */\n    ...\n    retval = devm_request_irq(\u0026pdev-\u003edev, irq, spear_adc_isr, 0,\n                              LPC32XXAD_NAME, st);           /* register handler */\n    ...\n    init_completion(\u0026st-\u003ecompletion);                       /* initialize completion */\n\nspear_adc_isr() calls complete():\n\n    complete(\u0026st-\u003ecompletion);\n\nIf the device raises an interrupt before init_completion() runs,\ncomplete() acquires the uninitialized wait.lock and walks the zeroed\ntask_list in swake_up_locked(). The zeroed task_list makes list_empty()\nreturn false, so swake_up_locked() dereferences a NULL list entry,\ntriggering a KASAN wild-memory-access.\"\n\nFix the chance of a spurious IRQ causing an uninitialized pointer\ndereference by moving init_completion() above devm_request_irq().",
  "id": "GHSA-7gcx-pfrf-w3c4",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T09:30:33Z",
  "published": "2026-08-06T09:30:33Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64602"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37077d8271b1f24894fbc21bca1c4cd337525d31"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ee2128b6f0eb0be7b6cb8f6e0f1f113a65201a0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67a49ab41320b3f721ce4be7447754ff040acbd5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a50757398794aaa25f908b96c6733e045466cba4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aea8ae6c4d3ed58d9223360f758df6bd8b90c608"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbfebae473ac2c8a194523b29ccb9b45f02f134c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb5b07c9d0ec1a9d4b6871b14793c19967d79dc4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3f90bc7b38ba3ff14f131cea0f8eb77624787a8"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}



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