CVE-2026-89465 power: supply: rt9455: quiesce delayed work before teardown
A race condition in the RT9455 power supply driver allows use-after-free, potentially leading to code execution or system crash.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-89465?
CVE-2026-89465 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 11 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: rt9455: quiesce delayed work before teardown
The threaded IRQ handler can queue pwr_rdy_work, max_charging_time_work and batt_presence_work. pwr_rdy_work and batt_presence_work can also queue max_charging_time_work, while batt_presence_work can requeue itself.
rt9455_remove() cancels max_charging_time_work before batt_presence_work. The latter can therefore queue max_charging_time_work after it has already been cancelled:
rt9455_remove() workqueue cancel pwr_rdy_work cancel max_charging_time_work batt_presence_work queues max_charging_time_work cancel batt_presence_work return devres frees rt9455_info max_charging_time_work dereferences rt9455_info
The IRQ also remains registered until devres cleanup and can queue more work after any of the cancellation calls. If rt9455_hw_init() fails after the IRQ has been requested, probe returns without cancelling work that may already have been queued. A pending callback can then access rt9455_info after it has been freed.
Register rt9455_cancel_all_delayed_works() through devm_add_action_or_reset() right after devm_power_supply_register(). devres invokes the action in reverse registration order, after the managed IRQ has been freed and before rt9455_info is released, so the delayed works are drained in both rt9455_remove() and the probe error path. Cancel pwr_rdy_work and batt_presence_work before max_charging_time_work because both can queue the latter.
This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-89465?
How do I fix CVE-2026-89465?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2026-89465 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-89465 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-100365, BELL-CVE-2026-89465, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89465, GHSA-p55c-54p6-956p, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-89465.