CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31732
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-07-04
- 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:
gpio: Fix resource leaks on errors in gpiochip_add_data_with_key()
Since commit aab5c6f20023 ("gpio: set device type for GPIO chips"),
`gdev->dev.release` is unset. As a result, the reference count to
`gdev->dev` isn't dropped on the error handling paths.
Drop the reference on errors.
Also reorder the instructions to make the error handling simpler.
Now gpiochip_add_data_with_key() roughly looks like:
>>> Some memory allocation. Go to ERR ZONE 1 on errors.
>>> device_initialize().
gpiodev_release() takes over the responsibility for freeing the
resources of `gdev->dev`. The subsequent error handling paths
shouldn't go through ERR ZONE 1 again which leads to double free.
>>> Some initialization mainly on `gdev`.
>>> The rest of initialization. Go to ERR ZONE 2 on errors.
>>> Chip registration success and exit.
>>> ERR ZONE 2. gpio_device_put() and exit.
>>> ERR ZONE 1.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.18.22)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.12)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16fdabe143fce2cbf89139677728e17e21b46c28 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a500e1837c4266ddb05b39b3e1cc71f49a43ffa5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0cf9c7b7c281956cc0dec163132cd96f76e1d60 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb4584d2b324c522404c733c65840a1a6519ada8 Patch