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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-46959"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-29T22:31:12.304Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:18:46.554Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46959"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-46959.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46959"
title: "spi: Fix use-after-free with devm_spi_alloc_*"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspi: Fix use-after-free with devm_spi_alloc_*\n\nWe can't rely on the contents of the devres list during\nspi_unregister_controller(), as the list is already torn down at the\ntime we perform devres_find() for devm_spi_release_controller. This\ncauses devices registered with devm_spi_alloc_{master,slave}() to be\nmistakenly identified as legacy, non-devm managed devices and have their\nreference counters decremented below 0.\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nWARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 660 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x108/0x174\n[\u003cb0396f04\u003e] (refcount_warn_saturate) from [\u003cb03c56a4\u003e] (kobject_put+0x90/0x98)\n[\u003cb03c5614\u003e] (kobject_put) from [\u003cb0447b4c\u003e] (put_device+0x20/0x24)\n r4:b6700140\n[\u003cb0447b2c\u003e] (put_device) from [\u003cb07515e8\u003e] (devm_spi_release_controller+0x3c/0x40)\n[\u003cb07515ac\u003e] (devm_spi_release_controller) from [\u003cb045343c\u003e] (release_nodes+0x84/0xc4)\n r5:b6700180 r4:b6700100\n[\u003cb04533b8\u003e] (release_nodes) from [\u003cb0454160\u003e] (devres_release_all+0x5c/0x60)\n r8:b1638c54 r7:b117ad94 r6:b1638c10 r5:b117ad94 r4:b163dc10\n[\u003cb0454104\u003e] (devres_release_all) from [\u003cb044e41c\u003e] (__device_release_driver+0x144/0x1ec)\n r5:b117ad94 r4:b163dc10\n[\u003cb044e2d8\u003e] (__device_release_driver) from [\u003cb044f70c\u003e] (device_driver_detach+0x84/0xa0)\n r9:00000000 r8:00000000 r7:b117ad94 r6:b163dc54 r5:b1638c10 r4:b163dc10\n[\u003cb044f688\u003e] (device_driver_detach) from [\u003cb044d274\u003e] (unbind_store+0xe4/0xf8)\n\nInstead, determine the devm allocation state as a flag on the\ncontroller which is guaranteed to be stable during cleanup."
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