CVE-2024-58081

clk: mmp2: call pm_genpd_init() only after genpd.name is set

Medium · published March 6, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

clk: mmp2: call pm_genpd_init() only after genpd.name is set

Setting the genpd's struct device's name with dev_set_name() is

happening within pm_genpd_init(). If it remains NULL, things can blow up

later, such as when crafting the devfs hierarchy for the power domain:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 when read

...

Call trace:

strlen from start_creating+0x90/0x138

start_creating from debugfs_create_dir+0x20/0x178

debugfs_create_dir from genpd_debug_add.part.0+0x4c/0x144

genpd_debug_add.part.0 from genpd_debug_init+0x74/0x90

genpd_debug_init from do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x244

do_one_initcall from kernel_init_freeable+0x19c/0x1f4

kernel_init_freeable from kernel_init+0x1c/0x12c

kernel_init from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28

Bisecting tracks this crash back to commit 899f44531fe6 ("pmdomain: core:

Add GENPD_FLAG_DEV_NAME_FW flag"), which exchanges use of genpd->name

with dev_name(&genpd->dev) in genpd_debug_add.part().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00180 · 7.1th percentile
Published
2025-03-06T16:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 MAR 16:13Z
    clk: mmp2: call pm_genpd_init() only after genpd.name is set
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