power: supply: bq27xxx: Fix poll_interval handling and races on remove
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 4.14.316, 4.19.284, 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.114, 6.1.31, 6.3.5, 6.4
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-54079
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-gmfg-4jjj-q47r
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c9615474fb0a41cfad658d78db3c9ec70912969
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/465d919151a1e8d40daf366b868914f59d073211
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c5f4cec759679c290720fbcf6bb81768e21c95b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e85757da9091998276ff21a13915ac25229cc232
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e98e5bebfcafc75a7b41192a607dfea5c1268afa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d952a1eaafcc5f0351caad5dbe9b5b3300d1d529
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b12faeca0e819ea09051a705fef9df7ea7e9e18c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c00bc80462afc7963f449d7f21d896d2f629cacc
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Sources
- CVE-2023-54079 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-54079 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-gmfg-4jjj-q47r · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2023-54079 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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