CVE-2024-40975

platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Unregister devices in reverse order

published July 12, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Unregister devices in reverse order

Not all subsystems support a device getting removed while there are

still consumers of the device with a reference to the device.

One example of this is the regulator subsystem. If a regulator gets

unregistered while there are still drivers holding a reference

a WARN() at drivers/regulator/core.c:5829 triggers, e.g.:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1587 at drivers/regulator/core.c:5829 regulator_unregister

Hardware name: Intel Corp. VALLEYVIEW C0 PLATFORM/BYT-T FFD8, BIOS BLADE_21.X64.0005.R00.1504101516 FFD8_X64_R_2015_04_10_1516 04/10/2015

RIP: 0010:regulator_unregister

Call Trace:

<TASK>

regulator_unregister

devres_release_group

i2c_device_remove

device_release_driver_internal

bus_remove_device

device_del

device_unregister

x86_android_tablet_remove

On the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 series the bq24190 charger chip also provides

a 5V boost converter output for powering USB devices connected to the micro

USB port, the bq24190-charger driver exports this as a Vbus regulator.

On the 830 (8") and 1050 ("10") models this regulator is controlled by

a platform_device and x86_android_tablet_remove() removes platform_device-s

before i2c_clients so the consumer gets removed first.

But on the 1380 (13") model there is a lc824206xa micro-USB switch

connected over I2C and the extcon driver for that controls the regulator.

The bq24190 i2c-client *must* be registered first, because that creates

the regulator with the lc824206xa listed as its consumer. If the regulator

has not been registered yet the lc824206xa driver will end up getting

a dummy regulator.

Since in this case both the regulator provider and consumer are I2C

devices, the only way to ensure that the consumer is unregistered first

is to unregister the I2C devices in reverse order of in which they were

created.

For consistency and to avoid similar problems in the future change

x86_android_tablet_remove() to unregister all device types in reverse

order.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00288 · 20.2th percentile
Published
2024-07-12T12:32Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JUL 12:32Z
    platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Unregister devices in reverse order
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