UBUNTU-CVE-2026-90282: Medium severity ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: qcom: qmp-usb-legacy: Fix possible NULL-deref on early runtime suspend There is a small window where the runtime suspend callback may run after pmruntimeenable() and before pmruntimeforbid(). In this case, a crash occurs because runtime suspend/resume dereferences qmp->phy pointer, which is not yet initialized: if (!qmp->phy->initcount) { This can also happen if user re-enables runtime-pm via the sysfs attribute before qmp phy is initialized. Similarly to other qcom phy drivers, introduce a qmp->phyinitialized variable that can be used to avoid relying on the possibly uninitialized phy pointer.
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Compensating control
Add a qmp->phy_initialized variable and use it in runtime suspend/resume to avoid dereferencing qmp->phy until the PHY has been initialized; this also protects against runtime-PM being re-enabled through sysfs before initialization.