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CVE-2023-53596

drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc before 83e2ec36a92432e9445e853c12becbbae353b511; affected a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc before b9ef4b0aa91d2f9f5951faafdbbd47cf01799ec3; affected a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc before 297992e5c63528e603666e36081836204fc36ec9; affected a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc before 3bcc4c2a096e8342c8c719e595ce15de212694dd; affected a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc before c8c426fae26086a0ca8ab6cc6da2de79810ec038; affected a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc before 699fb50d99039a50e7494de644f96c889279aca3
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.7; unaffected 0 before 3.7; unaffected 5.10.258 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.209 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.53 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.4.16 through 6.4.*; unaffected 6.5.3 through 6.5.*; unaffected 6.6 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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