CVE-2026-98645

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown winwing_init_ff() passes the driver's private data, allocated with devm_kzalloc() in winwing_probe(), as the effect context to input_ff_create_memless(). The memoryless force-feedback core takes ownership of that pointer and frees it with kfree() from input_ff_destroy() (ml_ff_destroy()) when the input device is destroyed. Freeing a devm-managed allocation with kfree() is an invalid free, and the same object is then released again by devres when the HID device is torn down, a double free. As the allocation also embeds the LED class devices, their timers and work item live on freed memory and the slab gets corrupted. This triggers on unbind, rmmod, hot-unplug and on system suspend, where the firmware cache walks the now-corrupt devres list. KASAN reports: BUG: KASAN: invalid-free in input_ff_destroy Allocated by task N: winwing_probe Pass NULL as the memless context instead and fetch the driver data from the input device in winwing_play_effect(): the HID core already stores the hid_device as the input device's drvdata. The force-feedback core then owns nothing that it must not free.

SeverityUnknown
CVSS—
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux
PublishedOct 18, 2026
First seenOct 18, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • Linux Linux2b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923, a1a5ad37e50ceb192c07ac7e2d7143638cd4d110 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Linux Linux42d020b54edc57d03749bed75976f1e962a9fbfa ≤ v < 2b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923, 42d020b54edc57d03749bed75976f1e962a9fbfa ≤ v < a1a5ad37e50ceb192c07ac7e2d7143638cd4d110, 7.12b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923, a1a5ad37e50ceb192c07ac7e2d7143638cd4d110

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