Medium [CVE-2026-80648] fix NULL check in spacemit_pin_set_config
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-80648 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat package: kernel.
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: spacemit: fix NULL check in spacemit_pin_set_config spacemit_pin_set_config() looks up the per-pin descriptor with spacemit_get_pin() then checks the wrong variable for failure: const struct spacemit_pin *spin = spacemit_get_pin(pctrl, pin);... if (!pin) return -EINVAL; reg = spacemit_pin_to_reg(pctrl, spin->pin); pin is an unsigned int pin id, where 0 (GPIO_0 / gmac0_rxdv on K3) is a valid pin, so rejecting it here drops the PAD config write for the first pin of every group.
On K3 Pico-ITX the GMAC RGMII group lists pin 0 as its first entry, so its drive-strength / bias configuration was silently ignored. The intended guard is against spacemit_get_pin() returning NULL when the pin id isn't in the SoC's pin table.
Check spin instead, which both restores PAD setup for pin 0 and prevents a NULL deref on spin->pin. An incorrect NULL check in the `spacemit_pin_set_config()` function can lead to a NULL pointer dereference.
This occurs when the system attempts to configure a pin that is not present in the SoC's pin table, potentially causing a system crash and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Red Hat severity: Low — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-476. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
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Mitigation
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