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HID: asus: refactor the two workqueues and init sequence

Published Sep 17, 2026

Description

Multiple issues have been found within the hid-asus driver: - unchecked size in asus_raw_event() - unclean teardown of asus_probe on failure - possible use-after-free in asus_probe - multiple workqueue used for jobs where one was enough - sleeping calls in atomic context - packets of incorrect size being sent to the keyboard controller

Join the two workqueues into one reusing the stopping mechanism of the brightness workqueue, use the joined workqueue to also move the asus_wmi_send_event() sleeping call away from atomic context and add a size check in asus_raw_event().

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Linux
Published Sep 17, 2026
Updated Sep 17, 2026
Reserved Sep 11, 2026
NVD
Status Received
Modified Sep 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a