CVE-2023-54079

Linux Kernel - Race Condition in bq27xxx Battery Driver Poll Interval Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: bq27xxx: Fix poll_interval handling and races on remove Before this patch bq27xxx_battery_teardown() was setting poll_interval = 0 to avoid bq27xxx_battery_update() requeuing the delayed_work item. There are 2 problems with this: 1. If the driver is unbound through sysfs, rather then the module being rmmod-ed, this changes poll_interval unexpectedly 2. This is racy, after it being set poll_interval could be changed before bq27xxx_battery_update() checks it through /sys/module/bq27xxx_battery/parameters/poll_interval Fix this by added a removed attribute to struct bq27xxx_device_info and using that instead of setting poll_interval to 0. There also is another poll_interval related race on remove(), writing /sys/module/bq27xxx_battery/parameters/poll_interval will requeue the delayed_work item for all devices on the bq27xxx_battery_devices list and the device being removed was only removed from that list after cancelling the delayed_work item. Fix this by moving the removal from the bq27xxx_battery_devices list to before cancelling the delayed_work item.

Scores

EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.1%

Details

Status published
Products (25)
linux/Kernel 3.3.0 - 4.14.316linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.284linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.244linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.114linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.31linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.181linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.3.5linux
Linux/Linux < 3.3
Linux/Linux 3.3
Linux/Linux 4.14.316 - 4.14.*
... and 15 more
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026