CVE-2026-72314: regulator: core: regulator_lock_two() should test for EDEADLK not EDEADLOCK
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
regulator: core: regulatorlocktwo() should test for EDEADLK not EDEADLOCK
Compare against -EDEADLK, which is what wwmutexlock() actually returns and what every other deadlock check in this file already uses.
Function regulatorlocktwo() acquires two regulators via regulatorlocknested() -> wwmutexlock(). On contention, wwmutexlock() returns -EDEADLK, which is the caller's signal to drop the lock it holds and retry the acquisition in the canonical order.
However, regulatorlocktwo() tests the return value against -EDEADLOCK rather than -EDEADLK. On most architectures, EDEADLK and EDEADLOCK are the same value, so the comparison happens to be correct and the bug is invisible. But on MIPS, SPARC, and PowerPC, those two errors have different values. The test is wrong: a genuine -EDEADLK backoff no longer matches -EDEADLOCK, so instead of unlocking and retrying, the code falls into WARNON(ret) and returns with only one of the two regulators locked.
In practice, this is a bug only on MIPS, because the regulator core is not built or used on the other two platforms.
In general, EDEADLK is preferred over EDEADLOCK for new code.