CVE-2026-72063

gpio: tegra: do not call pinctrl for GPIO direction

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Published: August 15, 2026 at 05:52 AM UTC
Updated: August 23, 2026 at 01:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
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Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: tegra: do not call pinctrl for GPIO direction tegra_gpio_direction_input() and tegra_gpio_direction_output() already program the GPIO controller direction registers directly. The additional pinctrl_gpio_direction_input/output() calls do not add a Tegra pinctrl operation, because the Tegra pinmux ops provide GPIO request/free handling but no gpio_set_direction hook. The extra call still enters the pinctrl core and takes pctldev->mutex. Shared GPIO users can call the direction path while holding their per-line spinlock, so this otherwise redundant pinctrl direction call can sleep in an atomic context. This was found by our static analysis tool and then confirmed by manual review of tegra_gpio_probe(), the Tegra GPIO direction callbacks and the Tegra pinctrl ops. The reviewed path has a default non-sleeping struct gpio_chip while the direction callback still enters the pinctrl mutex path. A directed runtime validation kept the same non-sleeping chip registration and drove: gpio_shared_proxy_direction_output() gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit() tegra_gpio_direction_output() pinctrl_gpio_direction_output() Lockdep reported a sleep-in-atomic warning with the shared GPIO spinlock held and pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range() plus tegra_gpio_direction_output() on the stack. Do not mark the whole chip as can_sleep to paper over this: can_sleep describes whether get()/set() may sleep, and Tegra value access is MMIO. Remove the redundant pinctrl direction calls and keep pinctrl involvement in the existing request/free path.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.1 ≤ v < 5.10.2665.1 ≤ v < 5.15.2175.1 ≤ v < 6.1.1845.1 ≤ v < 6.12.975.1 ≤ v < 6.18.405.1 ≤ v < 6.6.1485.1 ≤ v < 7.1.55.1 ≤ v < 7.211da905412833d9b369a6a09a401f87149d674dc5.1
Vendor states this is fixed in 616188becd4a208afbae1653fc5241e1748bae80 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 628c63f96f4564fa145f602af2d41daf9532201f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 89904b4f1dc0f9550c3f206dcdfceed0b7ce7c49 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ac761e66708d51dac35c4c7f1891ea991dc788f0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cd17c5a1d9f186b57e9e2949be427803b7110a5c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d3b92d16e1c4debec7526b6dbb2d98d0aeed796b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d3e91a95b2b0fc6336dbf3ec90d831a1654d2720 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e57a4845b0da60a7b9f052160878097826320954 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.266 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.217 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.184 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.97 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.40 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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