CVE-2026-64500

Summary

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

iio: adc: lpc32xx: Initialize completion before requesting IRQ

In the report from Jaeyoung Chung:

"lpc32xx_adc_probe() in drivers/iio/adc/lpc32xx_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 lpc32xx_adc_probe():

iodev = devm_iio_device_alloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*st)); /* st kzalloc-zeroed */
...
retval = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, irq, lpc32xx_adc_isr, 0,
                          LPC32XXAD_NAME, st);           /* register handler */
...
init_completion(&st->completion);                       /* initialize completion */

lpc32xx_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().

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux7901b2a1453e48c9defff2c97c67d3089bf4df7a < 7090c0d29708ee305022d0ea7b37612b33242fa2affected
LinuxLinux7901b2a1453e48c9defff2c97c67d3089bf4df7a < 0e33587967b356519aa6f220b5b43c6976320397affected
LinuxLinux7901b2a1453e48c9defff2c97c67d3089bf4df7a < 1ddf7b6ffb8ebb22b92a184a9eaa76277ef0c7cdaffected
LinuxLinux7901b2a1453e48c9defff2c97c67d3089bf4df7a < 820c4f15353efe9a9429ae86ccceeaf4e0e4e585affected
LinuxLinux7901b2a1453e48c9defff2c97c67d3089bf4df7a < 48eccc6caed4e62c0f199ab3a3772fa969cd3b2daffected
LinuxLinux7901b2a1453e48c9defff2c97c67d3089bf4df7a < 9e2e8b8cdfd37ae7c7a8a5c96c59e98a768731c4affected
LinuxLinux7901b2a1453e48c9defff2c97c67d3089bf4df7a < 2f18c5551aa97ca7f39dbb151c67c9053ccadc17affected
LinuxLinux7901b2a1453e48c9defff2c97c67d3089bf4df7a < e561b35633f450ee607e87a6401d97f156a0cd54affected
LinuxLinux4.12affected
LinuxLinux0 < 4.12unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.261 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.212 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.178 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.145 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.96 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.39 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.4 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2-rc3 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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