CVE-2026-68416 (GCVE-0-2026-68416)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 12:04 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:05
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Title
mtd: fix double free and WARN_ON in add_mtd_device() error paths
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: fix double free and WARN_ON in add_mtd_device() error paths When device_register() or mtd_nvmem_add() fails inside add_mtd_device() for a partition, the error handling triggers mtd_release() via put_device() or device_unregister(). mtd_release() calls release_mtd_partition() which frees the mtd_info structure. However, callers such as mtd_add_partition() and add_mtd_partitions() also call free_partition() in their error paths, resulting in a double free. Additionally, release_mtd_partition() hits WARN_ON(!list_empty( &mtd->part.node)) because the partition node is still linked in the parent's partitions list when the release callback fires from the add_mtd_device() error path. Fix this by overriding dev->type and dev->release before put_device() in the error paths, so that device_release() invokes a no-op function instead of mtd_release(). For the mtd_nvmem_add() failure case, device_unregister() is replaced with device_del() to separate the device removal from the final kobject reference drop, allowing the override to take effect before put_device() is called. The callers' error paths (list_del + free_partition) remain the sole owners of mtd_info lifetime on add_mtd_device() failure, which is the expected contract. The normal partition teardown path is not affected: del_mtd_device() goes through kref_put() -> mtd_device_release() -> device_unregister() with dev->type still set to &mtd_devtype, so mtd_release() -> release_mtd_partition() continues to work correctly for the regular removal case.
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 19bfa9ebebb5ec0695def57eb1d80de7e9cab369 , < ffe21a3545b439e7b11578a701c22a847c149561 (git)
Affected: 19bfa9ebebb5ec0695def57eb1d80de7e9cab369 , < e1e96aca1bdf391e2f49531c270ffc134e5b49a5 (git)
Affected: 19bfa9ebebb5ec0695def57eb1d80de7e9cab369 , < f98ae09c727dcf34f745c875661c64b642e4abfa (git)
Affected: 19bfa9ebebb5ec0695def57eb1d80de7e9cab369 , < 820f983d641937a787e841ee4b93501f69f5683e (git)
Affected: 19bfa9ebebb5ec0695def57eb1d80de7e9cab369 , < 9d4af746af8ce27eefc2338b2feaa1e01f28b6c3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.148 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.101 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.6 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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