vulnerability

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

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

nvmem: core: fix cleanup after dev_set_name()

If dev_set_name() fails, we leak nvmem->wp_gpio as the cleanup does not
put this. While a minimal fix for this would be to add the gpiod_put()
call, we can do better if we split device_register(), and use the
tested nvmem_release() cleanup code by initialising the device early,
and putting the device.

This results in a slightly larger fix, but results in clear code.

Note: this patch depends on "nvmem: core: initialise nvmem->id early"
and "nvmem: core: remove nvmem_config wp_gpio".

[Srini: Fixed subject line and error code handing with wp_gpio while applying.]

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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