Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: stm32: dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation
Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA mux platform device during route allocation.
Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel @ 4.18.0 (+8 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: stm32: dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation
Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA mux platform device during route allocation.
Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.