CVE-2024-53075

riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes

published November 19, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes

When populating cache leaves we previously fetched the CPU device node

at the very beginning. But when ACPI is enabled we go through a

specific branch which returns early and does not call 'of_node_put' for

the node that was acquired.

Since we are not using a CPU device node for the ACPI code anyways, we

can simply move the initialization of it just passed the ACPI block, and

we are guaranteed to have an 'of_node_put' call for the acquired node.

This prevents a bad reference count of the CPU device node.

Moreover, the previous function did not check for errors when acquiring

the device node, so a return -ENOENT has been added for that case.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00216 · 11.4th percentile
Published
2024-11-19T17:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 NOV 17:31Z
    riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes
    cvelistv5