spi: s3c64xx: fix NULL-deref on driver unbind
CVE-2026-46296

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Key Information:

Vendor

Linux

Status
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 June 2026

What is CVE-2026-46296?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

spi: s3c64xx: fix NULL-deref on driver unbind

A change moving DMA channel allocation from probe() back to s3c64xx_spi_prepare_transfer() failed to remove the corresponding deallocation from remove().

Drop the bogus DMA channel release from remove() to avoid triggering a NULL-pointer dereference on driver unbind.

This issue was flagged by Sashiko when reviewing a controller deregistration fix.

Affected Version(s)

Linux f52b03c707444c5a3d1a0b9c5724f93ddc3c588e < 1108b8722b9ff0cdd3e8aa18d98244fcd93b6760

Linux f52b03c707444c5a3d1a0b9c5724f93ddc3c588e < 323a258f4b1916b5a3098618e036e033b2f2317f

Linux f52b03c707444c5a3d1a0b9c5724f93ddc3c588e < 1b66f16a571a10ba8889ac471755c8af9c5b9266

References

Timeline

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