CVE-2026-98854NVD
Vulnerability Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of/overlay: only treat a positive changeset id as registered
of_overlay_fdt_apply() stores the idr_alloc() return value in
ovcs->id before checking it. On failure the stored id is negative,
free_overlay_changeset()'s "if (ovcs->id)" check passes, idr_remove()
is called with a negative id and list_del() runs on ovcs->ovcs_list,
which is not initialized until after the id allocation. An allocation
failure at that point dereferences NULL.
Make free_overlay_changeset() treat only a strict-positive id as
registered. The rest of the function already copes with a
partially-initialized ovcs, so the error path stays a plain
goto err_free_ovcs.
of/overlay: only treat a positive changeset id as registered
of_overlay_fdt_apply() stores the idr_alloc() return value in
ovcs->id before checking it. On failure the stored id is negative,
free_overlay_changeset()'s "if (ovcs->id)" check passes, idr_remove()
is called with a negative id and list_del() runs on ovcs->ovcs_list,
which is not initialized until after the id allocation. An allocation
failure at that point dereferences NULL.
Make free_overlay_changeset() treat only a strict-positive id as
registered. The rest of the function already copes with a
partially-initialized ovcs, so the error path stays a plain
goto err_free_ovcs.
Affected & Patched Versions
Not provided by NVD for this CVE.
Not provided by NVD for this CVE.
External References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d1525fdcd3355672b7485d61e55df6824ab5ad1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44081d708b5b885487bac792db78324b7b4c267d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71065f3d6864a101b77e7af84566757c4df415a0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7af5d66d0514b8f1d759d0e32b9d4c5d26263e4a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c08a54df9d33dcd6ff089adc9434b2c008af3a39
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c875407c34dadaef0599834ad9c815f4c9f50d15
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc688475c56d34a2b584141f9544cbe23360080d