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CVE-2026-45868

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: single: fix refcount leak in pcs_add_gpio_func() of_parse_phandle_with_args() retu…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: single: fix refcount leak in pcs_add_gpio_func() of_parse_phandle_with_args() returns a device_node pointer with refcount incremented in gpiospec.np. The loop iterates through all phandles but never releases the reference, causing a refcount leak on each iteration. Add of_node_put() calls to release the reference after extracting the needed arguments and on the error path when devm_kzalloc() fails. This bug was detected by our static analysis tool and verified by my code review.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 3.10 before 5.10.252
from 5.11 before 5.15.202
from 5.16 before 6.1.165
from 6.2 before 6.6.128
from 6.7 before 6.12.75
from 6.13 before 6.18.14

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