Description (CNA)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes When populating cache leaves we previously fetched the CPU device node at the very beginning. But when ACPI is enabled we go through a specific branch which returns early and does not call 'of_node_put' for the node that was acquired. Since we are not using a CPU device node for the ACPI code anyways, we can simply move the initialization of it just passed the ACPI block, and we are guaranteed to have an 'of_node_put' call for the acquired node. This prevents a bad reference count of the CPU device node. Moreover, the previous function did not check for errors when acquiring the device node, so a return -ENOENT has been added for that case.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux / Linux | affected ebccacb0b599fa788a16eff35a7de14621f56804 before 80aec5a855106c668b5978c48e789f010198b832; affected 604f32ea6909b0ebb8ab0bf1ab7dc66ee3dc8955 before 303846a3dc275e35fbb556d72f1e356ba669e4f8; affected 604f32ea6909b0ebb8ab0bf1ab7dc66ee3dc8955 before 37233169a6ea912020c572f870075a63293b786a |
| Linux / Linux | affected 6.11; unaffected 0 before 6.11; unaffected 6.11.7 through 6.11.*; unaffected 6.12 through * |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.