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CVE-2020-36778

i2c: xiic: fix reference leak when pm_runtime_get_sync fails PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: xiic: fix reference leak when pm_runtime_get_sync fails The PM reference count is not expected to be incremented on return in xiic_xfer and xiic_i2c_remove. However, pm_runtime_get_sync will increment the PM reference count even failed. Forgetting to putting operation will result in a reference leak here. Replace it with pm_runtime_resume_and_get to keep usage counter balanced.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 10b17004a74c384c6f410af355b0d6d7a168f613 before c977426db644ba476938125597947979e8aba725; affected 10b17004a74c384c6f410af355b0d6d7a168f613 before e2ba996577eaea423694dc69ae43d56f1410a22b; affected 10b17004a74c384c6f410af355b0d6d7a168f613 before a42ac16e6573f19c78f556ea292f5b534fcc4514; affected 10b17004a74c384c6f410af355b0d6d7a168f613 before a85c5c7a3aa8041777ff691400b4046e56149fd3
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.6; unaffected 0 before 5.6; unaffected 5.10.37 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.11.21 through 5.11.*; unaffected 5.12.4 through 5.12.*; unaffected 5.13 through *

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