vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2025-23144: kernel: backlight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable()
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 1, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
backlight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable()
Lockdep detects the following issue on led-backlight removal:
[ 142.315935] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 142.315954] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 292 at drivers/leds/led-core.c:455 led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80
...
[ 142.500725] Call trace:
[ 142.503176] led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80 (P)
[ 142.507370] led_bl_remove+0x80/0xa8 [led_bl]
[ 142.511742] platform_remove+0x30/0x58
[ 142.515501] device_remove+0x54/0x90
...
Indeed, led_sysfs_enable() has to be called with the led_access
lock held.
Hold the lock when calling led_sysfs_disable().
Solution
References
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