CVE-2024-35879

2024-05-1909:15:09

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux kernel

vulnerability

of_platform_depopulate

of_overlay_remove

memory leak

devlink removals

of_node_put

synchronization

nvd

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.4%

JSON

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

of: dynamic: Synchronize of_changeset_destroy() with the devlink removals

In the following sequence:

of_platform_depopulate()
of_overlay_remove()

During the step 1, devices are destroyed and devlinks are removed.
During the step 2, OF nodes are destroyed but
__of_changeset_entry_destroy() can raise warnings related to missing
of_node_put():
ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2 …

Indeed, during the devlink removals performed at step 1, the removal
itself releasing the device (and the attached of_node) is done by a job
queued in a workqueue and so, it is done asynchronously with respect to
function calls.
When the warning is present, of_node_put() will be called but wrongly
too late from the workqueue job.

In order to be sure that any ongoing devlink removals are done before
the of_node destruction, synchronize the of_changeset_destroy() with the
devlink removals.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.13–5.10.215

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.11.0–5.15.154

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.16.0–6.1.85

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.2.0–6.6.26

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.8.5

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.9.0≥

CNA Affected

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    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/of/dynamic.c"
    ],
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  },
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      },
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      },
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      }
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]