# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46202"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-28T09:40:18.687Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T18:02:25.494Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-46202"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46202.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46202"
title: "HID: appletb-kbd: run inactivity autodim from workqueues"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: appletb-kbd: run inactivity autodim from workqueues\n\nThe autodim code in hid-appletb-kbd takes backlight_device-\u003eops_lock\nvia backlight_device_set_brightness() -\u003e mutex_lock() from two\ndifferent atomic contexts:\n\n * appletb_inactivity_timer() is a struct timer_list callback, so it\n   runs in softirq context.  Every expiry triggers\n\n     BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:591\n     Call Trace:\n      \u003cIRQ\u003e\n      __might_resched\n      __mutex_lock\n      backlight_device_set_brightness\n      appletb_inactivity_timer\n      call_timer_fn\n      run_timer_softirq\n\n * reset_inactivity_timer() is called from appletb_kbd_hid_event() and\n   appletb_kbd_inp_event().  On real USB hardware these run in\n   softirq/IRQ context (URB completion and input-event dispatch).\n   When the Touch Bar has already been dimmed or turned off, the\n   reset path calls backlight_device_set_brightness() directly to\n   restore brightness, producing the same warning.\n\nBoth call sites hit the same mutex_lock()-from-atomic bug.  Fix them\ntogether by moving the blocking work onto the system workqueue:\n\n * Convert the inactivity timer from struct timer_list to\n   struct delayed_work; the callback (appletb_inactivity_work) now\n   runs in process context where mutex_lock() is legal.\n * Add a dedicated struct work_struct restore_brightness_work and have\n   reset_inactivity_timer() schedule it instead of calling\n   backlight_device_set_brightness() directly.\n\nCancel both works synchronously during driver tear-down alongside the\nexisting backlight reference drop.\n\nThe semantics are unchanged (same delays, same state transitions on\ndim, turn-off and user activity); only the execution context of the\nsleeping call changes.  The timer field and callback are renamed to\nmatch their new type; reset_inactivity_timer() keeps its name because\nit is invoked from input event paths that read naturally as \"reset\nthe inactivity timer\"."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"93a0fc48948107e0cc34e1de22c3cb363a8f2783","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c0830323689ef15224f0025276176988861b3b0"},{"version":"93a0fc48948107e0cc34e1de22c3cb363a8f2783","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2473a334c292af257ef68e33bc7760f4a8251812"},{"version":"93a0fc48948107e0cc34e1de22c3cb363a8f2783","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1654e53349d4e657b331de354313461f401f5063"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.32","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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