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CVE-2023-52473

thermal: core: Fix NULL pointer dereference in zone registration error path PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal: core: Fix NULL pointer dereference in zone registration error path If device_register() in thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips() returns an error, the tz variable is set to NULL and subsequently dereferenced in kfree(tz->tzp). Commit adc8749b150c ("thermal/drivers/core: Use put_device() if device_register() fails") added the tz = NULL assignment in question to avoid a possible double-free after dropping the reference to the zone device. However, after commit 4649620d9404 ("thermal: core: Make thermal_zone_device_unregister() return after freeing the zone"), that assignment has become redundant, because dropping the reference to the zone device does not cause the zone object to be freed any more. Drop it to address the NULL pointer dereference.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 3d439b1a2ad36c8b4ea151c8de25309d60d17407 before 335176dd8ebaca6493807dceea33c478305667fa; affected 3d439b1a2ad36c8b4ea151c8de25309d60d17407 before 02871710b93058eb1249d5847c0b2d1c2c3c98ae; affected 3d439b1a2ad36c8b4ea151c8de25309d60d17407 before 04e6ccfc93c5a1aa1d75a537cf27e418895e20ea
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.4; unaffected 0 before 6.4; unaffected 6.6.14 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.7.2 through 6.7.*; unaffected 6.8 through *

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