CVE-2023-53054

usb: dwc2: fix a devres leak in hw_enable upon suspend resume

published May 2, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

usb: dwc2: fix a devres leak in hw_enable upon suspend resume

Each time the platform goes to low power, PM suspend / resume routines

call: __dwc2_lowlevel_hw_enable -> devm_add_action_or_reset().

This adds a new devres each time.

This may also happen at runtime, as dwc2_lowlevel_hw_enable() can be

called from udc_start().

This can be seen with tracing:

- echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/dev/devres_log/enable

- go to low power

- cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace

A new "ADD" entry is found upon each low power cycle:

... devres_log: 49000000.usb-otg ADD 82a13bba devm_action_release (8 bytes)

... devres_log: 49000000.usb-otg ADD 49889daf devm_action_release (8 bytes)

...

A second issue is addressed here:

- regulator_bulk_enable() is called upon each PM cycle (suspend/resume).

- regulator_bulk_disable() never gets called.

So the reference count for these regulators constantly increase, by one

upon each low power cycle, due to missing regulator_bulk_disable() call

in __dwc2_lowlevel_hw_disable().

The original fix that introduced the devm_add_action_or_reset() call,

fixed an issue during probe, that happens due to other errors in

dwc2_driver_probe() -> dwc2_core_reset(). Then the probe fails without

disabling regulators, when dr_mode == USB_DR_MODE_PERIPHERAL.

Rather fix the error path: disable all the low level hardware in the

error path, by using the "hsotg->ll_hw_enabled" flag. Checking dr_mode

has been introduced to avoid a dual call to dwc2_lowlevel_hw_disable().

"ll_hw_enabled" should achieve the same (and is used currently in the

remove() routine).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00206 · 10.1th percentile
Published
2025-05-02T15:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 MAY 15:55Z
    usb: dwc2: fix a devres leak in hw_enable upon suspend resume
    cvelistv5