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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72063" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:17.315Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-23T12:46:39.651Z" 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-2026-72063" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72063.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72063" title: "gpio: tegra: do not call pinctrl for GPIO direction" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpio: tegra: do not call pinctrl for GPIO direction\n\ntegra_gpio_direction_input() and tegra_gpio_direction_output() already\nprogram the GPIO controller direction registers directly. The additional\npinctrl_gpio_direction_input/output() calls do not add a Tegra pinctrl\noperation, because the Tegra pinmux ops provide GPIO request/free\nhandling but no gpio_set_direction hook.\n\nThe extra call still enters the pinctrl core and takes pctldev-\u003emutex.\nShared GPIO users can call the direction path while holding their\nper-line spinlock, so this otherwise redundant pinctrl direction call can\nsleep in an atomic context.\n\nThis was found by our static analysis tool and then confirmed by manual\nreview of tegra_gpio_probe(), the Tegra GPIO direction callbacks and the\nTegra pinctrl ops. The reviewed path has a default non-sleeping\nstruct gpio_chip while the direction callback still enters the pinctrl\nmutex path.\n\nA directed runtime validation kept the same non-sleeping chip registration\nand drove:\n\n gpio_shared_proxy_direction_output()\n gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit()\n tegra_gpio_direction_output()\n pinctrl_gpio_direction_output()\n\nLockdep reported a sleep-in-atomic warning with the shared GPIO spinlock\nheld and pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range() plus tegra_gpio_direction_output()\non the stack.\n\nDo not mark the whole chip as can_sleep to paper over this: can_sleep\ndescribes whether get()/set() may sleep, and Tegra value access is MMIO.\nRemove the redundant pinctrl direction calls and keep pinctrl involvement\nin the existing request/free path." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89904b4f1dc0f9550c3f206dcdfceed0b7ce7c49"},{"version":"11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3b92d16e1c4debec7526b6dbb2d98d0aeed796b"},{"version":"11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"616188becd4a208afbae1653fc5241e1748bae80"},{"version":"11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e57a4845b0da60a7b9f052160878097826320954"},{"version":"11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd17c5a1d9f186b57e9e2949be427803b7110a5c"},{"version":"11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac761e66708d51dac35c4c7f1891ea991dc788f0"},{"version":"11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"628c63f96f4564fa145f602af2d41daf9532201f"},{"version":"11da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3e91a95b2b0fc6336dbf3ec90d831a1654d2720"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"},{"version":"5.10.266","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.217","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.184","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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