CVE-2023-52929

The CVE-2023-52929 entry concerns a Linux kernel nvmem core cleanup bug: if dev_set_name() fails, nvmem->wp_gpio remains leaked because the cleanup path doesn’t release it. The described fix prefers reworking initialization and cleanup by splitting device_register() and reusing the nvmem_relea...

CVE-2023-52929 nvmem: core: fix cleanup after dev_set_name()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmem: core: fix cleanup after devsetname If devsetname fails, we leak nvmem-wpgpio as the cleanup does not put this. While a minimal fix for this would be to add the gpiodput call, we can do better if we split deviceregister, an...

CVE-2023-52929 nvmem: core: fix cleanup after dev_set_name()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmem: core: fix cleanup after devsetname If devsetname fails, we leak nvmem-wpgpio as the cleanup does not put this. While a minimal fix for this would be to add the gpiodput call, we can do better if we split deviceregister, an...