CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37905
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices
Using device_find_child() to lookup the proper SCMI device to destroy
causes an unbalance in device refcount, since device_find_child() calls an
implicit get_device(): this, in turns, inhibits the call of the provided
release methods upon devices destruction.
As a consequence, one of the structures that is not freed properly upon
destruction is the internal struct device_private dev->p populated by the
drivers subsystem core.
KMemleak detects this situation since loading/unloding some SCMI driver
causes related devices to be created/destroyed without calling any
device_release method.
unreferenced object 0xffff00000f583800 (size 512):
comm "insmod", pid 227, jiffies 4294912190
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 60 36 1d 8a 00 80 ff ff ........`6......
backtrace (crc 114e2eed):
kmemleak_alloc+0xbc/0xd8
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2dc/0x398
device_add+0x954/0x12d0
device_register+0x28/0x40
__scmi_device_create.part.0+0x1bc/0x380
scmi_device_create+0x2d0/0x390
scmi_create_protocol_devices+0x74/0xf8
scmi_device_request_notifier+0x1f8/0x2a8
notifier_call_chain+0x110/0x3b0
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x70/0xb0
scmi_driver_register+0x350/0x7f0
0xffff80000a3b3038
do_one_initcall+0x12c/0x730
do_init_module+0x1dc/0x640
load_module+0x4b20/0x5b70
init_module_from_file+0xec/0x158
$ ./scripts/faddr2line ./vmlinux device_add+0x954/0x12d0
device_add+0x954/0x12d0:
kmalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:901
(inlined by) kzalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:1037
(inlined by) device_private_init at drivers/base/core.c:3510
(inlined by) device_add at drivers/base/core.c:3561
Balance device refcount by issuing a put_device() on devices found via
device_find_child().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.15.182)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.138)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.90)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.28)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fbf6c9695ad9f05e7e5c166bf43fac7cb3276b3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a8a3547d5c4960da053df49c75bf623827a25da Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91ff1e9652fb9beb0174267d6bb38243dff211bb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/969d8beaa2e374387bf9aa5602ef84fc50bb48d8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ca67840c0ddf3f39407339624cef824a4f27599 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff4273d47da81b95ed9396110bcbd1b7b7470fe8 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html Mailing List