In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

thermal: core: Fix thermal zone governor cleanup issues

If thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() fails after adding
a thermal governor to the thermal zone being registered, the
governor is not removed from it as appropriate which may lead to
a memory leak.

In turn, thermal_zone_device_unregister() calls thermal_set_governor()
without acquiring the thermal zone lock beforehand which may race with
a governor update via sysfs and may lead to a use-after-free in that
case.

Address these issues by adding two thermal_set_governor() calls, one to
thermal_release() to remove the governor from the given thermal zone,
and one to the thermal zone registration error path to cover failures
preceding the thermal zone device registration.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46021
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a430a2d4e66ec8238da6c7f7e48809bf265e13
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41ff66baf81c6541f4f985dd7eac4494d03d9440
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64d4ebf91d082034bbc5ae3ba2d7fd800bc02d06
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75f8f3c3e09122270986de9d7aa347d701676761
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f412e541d25a3dfaf3d53e012ade6ff03cae8a45