CVE-2026-93189

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-93189

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

HID: core: quiesce input in hid_hw_stop() to prevent use-after-free

A driver's probe calls hid_device_io_start() to enable input delivery,

then fails at a later initialization step and unwinds via hid_hw_stop().

The unwind frees struct hidraw via hidraw_disconnect() while in-flight

HID reports may still be running on another CPU, dereferencing the

freed object through hidraw_report_event(). syzbot reports the

resulting use-after-free for the corsair-psu HID driver.

Edward Adam Davis posted a per-driver fix for corsair-psu that adds

an explicit hid_device_io_stop() before hid_hw_stop() in the probe

error path ("hwmon: prevent packets from going to driver for probe",

2026-04-28). Auditing the tree shows 15 drivers call

hid_device_io_start(); 7 also call hid_device_io_stop() and 8 do not:

drivers calling hid_device_io_start() without a matching

hid_device_io_stop() before hid_hw_stop():

drivers/hwmon/corsair-psu.c (fix posted by Edward)

drivers/hwmon/corsair-cpro.c

drivers/hwmon/nzxt-kraken3.c

drivers/hwmon/nzxt-smart2.c

drivers/hwmon/gigabyte_waterforce.c

drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c

drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c

drivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c

Roughly half of all callers of the API are exposed. Centralize the

quiesce in hid_hw_stop() so callers do not have to remember the

matching stop: if a driver has left hdev->io_started true on entry,

call hid_device_io_stop() before hid_disconnect().

For the 7 drivers that already call hid_device_io_stop() correctly,

hdev->io_started is false on entry, the guard short-circuits, and

behavior is unchanged.

No Fixes: tag because the affected drivers gained their

hid_device_io_start() calls independently over years; the bug is a

class-wide API misuse rather than a regression from one commit. (NVD)

What to Do

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

References