CVE-2023-53596

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device In the current code, devres_release_all() only gets called if the device has a bus and has been probed. This leads to issues when using bus-less or driver-less devices where the device might never get freed if a managed resource holds a reference to the device. This is happening in the DRM framework for example. We should thus call devres_release_all() in the device_del() function to make sure that the device-managed actions are properly executed when the device is unregistered, even if it has neither a bus nor a driver. This is effectively the same change than commit 2f8d16a996da ("devres: release resources on device_del()") that got reverted by commit a525a3ddeaca ("driver core: free devres in device_release") over memory leaks concerns. This patch effectively combines the two commits mentioned above to release the resources both on device_del() and device_release() and get the best of both worlds.

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/297992e5c63528e603666e36081836204fc36ec9 ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/297992e5c63528e603666e36081836204fc36ec9Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bcc4c2a096e8342c8c719e595ce15de212694ddPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/699fb50d99039a50e7494de644f96c889279aca3Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83e2ec36a92432e9445e853c12becbbae353b511Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9ef4b0aa91d2f9f5951faafdbbd47cf01799ec3Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8c426fae26086a0ca8ab6cc6da2de79810ec038Patch