CVE-2026-31486

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-31486

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

hwmon: (pmbus/core) Protect regulator operations with mutex

The regulator operations pmbus_regulator_get_voltage(),

pmbus_regulator_set_voltage(), and pmbus_regulator_list_voltage()

access PMBus registers and shared data but were not protected by

the update_lock mutex. This could lead to race conditions.

However, adding mutex protection directly to these functions causes

a deadlock because pmbus_regulator_notify() (which calls

regulator_notifier_call_chain()) is often called with the mutex

already held (e.g., from pmbus_fault_handler()). If a regulator

callback then calls one of the now-protected voltage functions,

it will attempt to acquire the same mutex.

Rework pmbus_regulator_notify() to utilize a worker function to

send notifications outside of the mutex protection. Events are

stored as atomics in a per-page bitmask and processed by the worker.

Initialize the worker and its associated data during regulator

registration, and ensure it is cancelled on device removal using

devm_add_action_or_reset().

While at it, remove the unnecessary include of linux/of.h. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References