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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80678"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T06:52:47.077Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:26:32.757Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-80678"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80678.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80678"
title: "i2c: imx: Fix slave registration race and error handling"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni2c: imx: Fix slave registration race and error handling\n\nIn i2c_imx_reg_slave(), the slave pointer was assigned before\npm_runtime_resume_and_get().  If pm_runtime_resume_and_get() failed,\nthe error path returned without clearing i2c_imx-\u003eslave, leaving it\nnon-NULL and causing all subsequent registration attempts to fail\nwith -EBUSY.\n\nAdditionally, because this driver uses a shared IRQ, the interrupt\nhandler i2c_imx_isr() can execute concurrently and, after acquiring\nslave_lock, dereference i2c_imx-\u003eslave.  The previous fix attempt\nadded a lockless i2c_imx-\u003eslave = NULL on the error path, but that\ncould race with the ISR under the lock and still cause a NULL pointer\ndereference.\n\nFix both issues by deferring the assignment of i2c_imx-\u003eslave and\ni2c_imx-\u003elast_slave_event to after a successful resume, and by\nperforming the assignment inside the slave_lock critical section.\nThis guarantees that the slave pointer is never left stale on the\nerror path and is always valid when observed by the interrupt handler."
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