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CVE-2026-90336

serial: core: clear freed pointers on uart_register_driver() failure

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

serial: core: clear freed pointers on uart_register_driver() failure

uart_register_driver() leaves drv->state pointing to freed memory when
tty_alloc_driver() fails. If tty_register_driver() fails, drv->tty_driver
also retains a pointer after its reference is dropped.

Drivers that use drv->state as an "already registered" flag can then skip
registration on the next probe and pass the freed state to
uart_add_one_port().

This issue was found with failslab on QEMU's raspi1ap board by
failing registration and binding the PL011 port again.

Clear both pointers on their failure paths, as uart_unregister_driver()
already does.
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HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version < 06b376432974fe5f25f2843a8e8438c6a1cf3d50
Status affected
Version 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Version < 61a2fb25551be0375bc16ef2a70c987dfca26183
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 2.6.12
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 2.6.12
Status unaffected
Version <= 7.2.*
Version 7.2.6
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.3-rc1
Status unaffected
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06b376432974fe5f25f2843a8e8438c6a1cf3d50
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61a2fb25551be0375bc16ef2a70c987dfca26183