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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93084"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:11:03.659Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:05:19.893Z"
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-2026-93084"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93084.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93084"
title: "firmware: arm_scmi: Drop handle on protocol bind failures"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware: arm_scmi: Drop handle on protocol bind failures\n\nThe SCMI bus notifier acquires an SCMI handle when the driver core emits\nBUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER, before invoking the protocol driver probe\ncallback. The protocol probe path only checks whether sdev-\u003ehandle is\nset.\n\nIf device_link_add() fails after the handle has been acquired, the\nprotocol device can still bind with a valid handle but without the\ndependency link to the SCMI parent. A concurrent parent unbind can then\nmiss the child and tear down the SCMI instance while the child still\nholds a handle into it.\n\nIf the protocol driver probe later fails, for example with\n-EPROBE_DEFER, the driver core emits BUS_NOTIFY_DRIVER_NOT_BOUND rather\nthan BUS_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER. The SCMI notifier only released the\nhandle on BUS_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER, so each failed protocol-device bind\nleaked the SCMI instance users refcount and left sdev-\u003ehandle set after\nthe failed probe.\n\nMake the link helper report failure and drop the acquired handle if the\nlink cannot be created. Also handle BUS_NOTIFY_DRIVER_NOT_BOUND in the\nsame cleanup path used for unbind so failed probes balance the earlier\nBUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER acquisition."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"971fc0665f1361f23251e4d85fac4aed1b683505","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f860db24ee95e5da4866303a35e55098b9641b3"},{"version":"971fc0665f1361f23251e4d85fac4aed1b683505","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df273eced7cec550465fd1bb82a5d2c3c7d3c437"},{"version":"971fc0665f1361f23251e4d85fac4aed1b683505","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a54dc23e8bd2246c28eafffa60b4634f0d1a11cc"},{"version":"971fc0665f1361f23251e4d85fac4aed1b683505","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77d2985d1e80e67f32026fc03e975c4c83cc543d"},{"version":"971fc0665f1361f23251e4d85fac4aed1b683505","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3a5c30d233ca5d3e799a80da806554c703bda13"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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