CVE-2026-31389

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) subsystem. During controller registration, a use-after-free vulnerability can occur if the allocation of per-CPU statistics fails. This could allow a local attacker to cause system instability or a denial of service by accessing freed memory.

This vulnerability occurs only during an unlikely error path when per-CPU statistics allocation fails during SPI controller registration. Under normal system operation with adequate memory, this path is not exercised. The practical exploitability is very limited as it requires triggering a specific allocation failure during driver initialization.

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