Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: bcm2835: Don’t remove an unregistered GPIO chip
If the devm_pinctrl_register() function fails, bcm2835_pinctrl_probe() calls gpiochip_remove() before gpiochip_add_data() has registered the GPIO chip.
This means that upon failure the gpio_chip.gpiodev is NULL resulting in a null pointer dereference inside the gpiochip_remove() function.
Remove the unnecessary function call to gpiochip_remove(). No GPIO cleanup is required because the GPIO chip has not yet been registered. Without this change there is potential for a kernel panic upon registration failure
Details
- Affected product:
- Debian 11 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 5.10.259
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 12 | Planned | — |
| Debian 13 | Will Not Fix |
17 kernels
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