CVE-2026-45868

Summary

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

pinctrl: single: fix refcount leak in pcs_add_gpio_func()

of_parse_phandle_with_args() returns a device_node pointer with refcount incremented in gpiospec.np. The loop iterates through all phandles but never releases the reference, causing a refcount leak on each iteration.

Add of_node_put() calls to release the reference after extracting the needed arguments and on the error path when devm_kzalloc() fails.

This bug was detected by our static analysis tool and verified by my code review.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxa1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 < 191bfd5710d6a7f48ba4315d8d3e908dcc15243caffected
LinuxLinuxa1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 < 3e3b28bb0b6ddc521a4fdd1c1ba0d35017a0796baffected
LinuxLinuxa1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 < 456a60d06c09a92680dc35fabca68024badcc28eaffected
LinuxLinuxa1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 < 99cc7352156c65201c675f750e0e77c4c73d93f5affected
LinuxLinuxa1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 < 7814b1431848854b56717086e2b61bea3c59753daffected
LinuxLinuxa1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 < e2e367e56bacb93ce5ac73f0b3297d5c83d38dd4affected
LinuxLinuxa1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 < 5b9e84d27e310f22c4ba45fedbc4f5baf43dd823affected
LinuxLinuxa1a277eb76b3507df7c41774048a644aa4dfd096 < 353353309b0f7afa407df29e455f9d15b5acc296affected
LinuxLinux3.10affected
LinuxLinux0 < 3.10unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.252 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.202 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.165 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.128 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.75 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.14 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.19.4 <= 6.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0 <= *unaffected

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