CVE-2023-53596
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device In the current code, devres_release_all() only gets called if the device has a bus and has been probed. This leads to issues when using bus-less or driver-less devices where the device might never get freed if a managed resource holds a reference to the device. This is happening in the DRM framework for example. We should thus call devres_release_all() in the device_del() function to make sure that the device-managed actions are properly executed when the device is unregistered, even if it has neither a bus nor a driver. This is effectively the same change than commit 2f8d16a996da ("devres: release resources on device_del()") that got reverted by commit a525a3ddeaca ("driver core: free devres in device_release") over memory leaks concerns. This patch effectively combines the two commits mentioned above to release the resources both on device_del() and device_release() and get the best of both worlds.
How to fix
- linux linux_kernel5.10.258, 5.15.209, 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3 or later
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/297992e5c63528e603666e36081836204fc36ec9
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bcc4c2a096e8342c8c719e595ce15de212694dd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/699fb50d99039a50e7494de644f96c889279aca3
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/83e2ec36a92432e9445e853c12becbbae353b511
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9ef4b0aa91d2f9f5951faafdbbd47cf01799ec3
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8c426fae26086a0ca8ab6cc6da2de79810ec038
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux linux_kernel | 3.7 ≤ v < 5.10.258, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.209, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.53, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.4.16, 6.5 ≤ v < 6.5.3 | 5.10.258, 5.15.209, 6.1.53, 6.4.16, 6.5.3 |
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