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FKIE_CVE-2026-72346

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:22 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:18
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: bitland-mifs-wmi: Fix NULL pointer dereference during suspend/resume The driver registers two distinct WMI devices: a control device (BITLAND_WMI_CONTROL) and an event device (BITLAND_WMI_EVENT). During the probe phase, the event device handling path returns early before initializing the platform profile device (data->pp_dev), leaving it NULL. However, the PM sleep operations are registered globally for the WMI driver and are triggered for both devices. When entering suspend, the event device invokes bitland_mifs_wmi_suspend(), which passes the uninitialized data->pp_dev (NULL) into laptop_profile_get(). This leads to a NULL pointer dereference inside dev_get_drvdata(), causing a kernel Oops and halting the suspend sequence. Fix this by adding a validity check for data->pp_dev in both the suspend and resume callbacks, safely skipping profile operations for the event device.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f2cb20d8e286218d51754f06ee219d8ce754b18
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3666875c75eb1bc8090343fa0d6fc8fb7924356
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nplatform/x86: bitland-mifs-wmi: Fix NULL pointer dereference during suspend/resume\n\nThe driver registers two distinct WMI devices: a control device\n(BITLAND_WMI_CONTROL) and an event device (BITLAND_WMI_EVENT). During\nthe probe phase, the event device handling path returns early before\ninitializing the platform profile device (data-\u003epp_dev), leaving it\nNULL.\n\nHowever, the PM sleep operations are registered globally for the WMI\ndriver and are triggered for both devices. When entering suspend, the\nevent device invokes bitland_mifs_wmi_suspend(), which passes the\nuninitialized data-\u003epp_dev (NULL) into laptop_profile_get(). This leads\nto a NULL pointer dereference inside dev_get_drvdata(), causing a\nkernel Oops and halting the suspend sequence.\n\nFix this by adding a validity check for data-\u003epp_dev in both the suspend\nand resume callbacks, safely skipping profile operations for the event\ndevice."
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  "id": "CVE-2026-72346",
  "lastModified": "2026-08-17T06:18:38.557",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2026-08-15T06:22:07.963",
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  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Received"
}



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