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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68416"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:04:36.582Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:05:10.971Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68416"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68416.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68416"
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:\n\nmtd: fix double free and WARN_ON in add_mtd_device() error paths\n\nWhen device_register() or mtd_nvmem_add() fails inside\nadd_mtd_device() for a partition, the error handling triggers\nmtd_release() via put_device() or device_unregister(). mtd_release()\ncalls release_mtd_partition() which frees the mtd_info structure.\nHowever, callers such as mtd_add_partition() and add_mtd_partitions()\nalso call free_partition() in their error paths, resulting in a double\nfree.\n\nAdditionally, release_mtd_partition() hits WARN_ON(!list_empty(\n&mtd-\u003epart.node)) because the partition node is still linked in the\nparent's partitions list when the release callback fires from the\nadd_mtd_device() error path.\n\nFix this by overriding dev-\u003etype and dev-\u003erelease before put_device()\nin the error paths, so that device_release() invokes a no-op function\ninstead of mtd_release(). For the mtd_nvmem_add() failure case,\ndevice_unregister() is replaced with device_del() to separate the\ndevice removal from the final kobject reference drop, allowing the\noverride to take effect before put_device() is called.\n\nThe callers' error paths (list_del + free_partition) remain the sole\nowners of mtd_info lifetime on add_mtd_device() failure, which is the\nexpected contract.\n\nThe normal partition teardown path is not affected: del_mtd_device()\ngoes through kref_put() -\u003e mtd_device_release() -\u003e device_unregister()\nwith dev-\u003etype still set to &mtd_devtype, so mtd_release() -\u003e\nrelease_mtd_partition() continues to work correctly for the regular\nremoval case."
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