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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89472"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:30.536Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:47:34.955Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89472"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89472.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89472"
title: "power: supply: charger-manager: register regulators before exposing sysfs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npower: supply: charger-manager: register regulators before exposing sysfs\n\ncharger_manager_remove() and the err_reg_extcon probe error path free each\ncharger regulator with regulator_put() before tearing down the power_supply\nsysfs entries (power_supply_unregister()). charger_manager_remove() also\ncalls try_charger_enable(cm, false) after the regulator_put() loop. A\nconcurrent write to a charger's externally_control sysfs attribute that\nlands between regulator_put() and power_supply_unregister() can run\ncharger_externally_control_store() and call try_charger_enable(), which,\nwhen charging is enabled, dereferences the already-freed consumer handle.\nWhen charging is enabled, try_charger_enable(cm, false) in .remove() also\ndereferences the freed handles directly. Both leave use-after-free windows.\nSymmetrically, probe registers the sysfs entries (power_supply_register)\nbefore acquiring the regulators (regulator_get, inside\ncharger_manager_register_extcon), so userspace can reach externally_control\nbefore the regulators are available.\n\nSplit charger_manager_register_extcon() on the sync/async boundary:\ncharger_manager_get_regulators() (regulator_get only, no async producer)\nnow runs before power_supply_register() so sysfs is not live before\nregulators are available, and charger_manager_register_extcon() keeps only\nthe extcon notifier/work setup, still after power_supply_register() so a\npower_supply_register() failure cannot reach extcon setup. This keeps the\nsysfs setup/teardown ordering symmetric without introducing an asynchronous\nproducer on the earlier probe-error path.\n\nMove power_supply_unregister() and try_charger_enable(cm, false) ahead of\nthe regulator_put() loop on both teardown paths, and adjust err_reg_extcon\n(power_supply_unregister() then fall through err_regulator for\nregulator_put(); get_regulators self-rolls back on its own failure).\n\nThis does not address the separate extcon-notifier-driven deref of the same\nhandles, which needs its own synchronization design.\n\nFound by an in-house static analysis tool."
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