CVE-2026-72346

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72346
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72346.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-72346
Downstream
Published
2026-08-15T05:55:51Z
Modified
2026-08-18T03:31:30Z
Summary
platform/x86: bitland-mifs-wmi: Fix NULL pointer dereference during suspend/resume
Details

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.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/72xxx/CVE-2026-72346.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
dc1ec4fa86b2b8bba2b6122f2b4420217b5bae9e
Fixed
6f2cb20d8e286218d51754f06ee219d8ce754b18
Fixed
d3666875c75eb1bc8090343fa0d6fc8fb7924356

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72346.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
7.1.0
Fixed
7.1.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-72346.json"