CVE-2026-92492

Summary

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

cpufreq/amd-pstate: handle missing policy in dynamic EPP callbacks

cpufreq_cpu_get() returns NULL when no cpufreq policy is associated with the requested CPU, for example because the CPU is offline or the policy has already been torn down. Both amd_pstate_power_supply_notifier() and amd_pstate_profile_set() acquire a policy via cpufreq_cpu_get() and then pass that pointer to amd_pstate_get_balanced_epp() and amd_pstate_set_epp(), which dereference it unconditionally. A racing CPU hotplug or driver teardown can therefore lead to a NULL pointer dereference on either of these dynamic EPP paths.

The third cpufreq_cpu_get() caller in this file, amd_pstate_verify(), already handles the NULL case. Bring the two new callers in line with that pattern: return NOTIFY_OK from the power-supply notifier (matching the other "nothing to do" exits) and -ENODEV from amd_pstate_profile_set() (the usual cpufreq error for a missing CPU policy).

Found by code inspection; not tested on hardware.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70c8c8b50d80f681f50ddcc66a9400dd87508913
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4ade8d224756ab69f108204dde6777bac4664e4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39c0cf62fc7851a17782e7efe8dfb2948739c681

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