tty: serial: max3100: shut down timer before freeing port
Key facts
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel's max3100 serial driver, max3100_shutdown() stops the polling timer but returns early during system suspend. If the SPI device is unbound before resume, the serial core does not call max3100_shutdown() again, so max3100_remove() frees the port while the timer is still armed. max3100_timeout() can then access the freed port and re-arm the timer. Red Hat rates this Moderate.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30
Description from the CNA
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: serial: max3100: shut down timer before freeing port max3100_shutdown() stops the polling timer but returns early during system suspend. If the SPI device is unbound before resume, the serial core does not call max3100_shutdown() again, so max3100_remove() frees the port while the timer remains armed. max3100_timeout() may then access the freed port and re-arm the timer. Add final timer teardown to max3100_remove() and use timer_shutdown_sync() to prevent a racing callback from re-arming it. Also free the IRQ and destroy the workqueue there before freeing the port. Keep timer_delete_sync() in max3100_shutdown() so that a subsequent open() can re-arm the timer. The workqueue is created before request_irq() and destroyed on both request_irq() failure and normal shutdown. Its presence at remove thus identifies the IRQ left registered when suspend bypasses shutdown. Free the IRQ before destroying the workqueue, in both max3100_shutdown() and max3100_remove(), and cancel the pending work in between. free_irq() waits for a running interrupt handler to finish and no new handler can start afterwards, so a racing handler cannot queue work on a workqueue that is being destroyed; the force_end_work check in max3100_dowork() only narrows that window, as a handler delayed between the check and queue_work() could still run after the teardown has cleared the workqueue pointer. Cancelling the work also keeps destroy_workqueue() from waiting on a queued work item in case remove() ever runs while the freezable workqueue is still frozen, e.g. device removal during the resume window, before workqueues are thawed. This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
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| Linux | Linux | 2.6.30 and later | 5.10.273, 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10, 7.3 | Patch available | CNA |
- Linux VendorLinux Affected 2.6.30 and later Fixed in 5.10.273, 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10, 7.3 Patch available CNA
Remediation
Update to a fixed kernel: 5.10.273, 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10 or 7.3, or apply the upstream commits listed for the affected ranges. The fix tears down the timer in max3100_remove() with timer_shutdown_sync(), frees the IRQ and destroys the workqueue before the port is freed. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 has no fix available yet.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-30
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.273, 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Timeline
- 2026-10-18 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-98749
- 2026-10-18 Alias added: GHSA-ghhr-fv6h-x88w
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-20 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-20 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/Linux@158a07da2da720f2f98b4bea129212c6805d8ee0, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-21 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected] +3 · CNA
- 2026-10-30 3 new references · CNA
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1187a7deac1e90182372a188dfe33ddd2b53cba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cbb3fcc7cd14396ccc1379c164d96a247331f2e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb8cefd66a6055a313c993fa9e8bed9be9b088f6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/158a07da2da720f2f98b4bea129212c6805d8ee0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb668620e3b163962dabe1a674725a07aa44ff4a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c8614981d3e6e000427de0ab2426ab68274d850
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/247b8f680876313586aed4d267bfcceddc2b4901
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db0949bbd06db0a75b4b1076f1e25194be7d956a
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Sources
- CVE-2026-98749 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-98749 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-ghhr-fv6h-x88w · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-98749 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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