CVE-2023-53612 (GCVE-0-2023-53612)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-04 15:44
Modified
2025-10-04 15:44
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (coretemp) Simplify platform device handling
Coretemp's platform driver is unconventional. All the real work is done
globally by the initcall and CPU hotplug notifiers, while the "driver"
effectively just wraps an allocation and the registration of the hwmon
interface in a long-winded round-trip through the driver core. The whole
logic of dynamically creating and destroying platform devices to bring
the interfaces up and down is error prone, since it assumes
platform_device_add() will synchronously bind the driver and set drvdata
before it returns, thus results in a NULL dereference if drivers_autoprobe
is turned off for the platform bus. Furthermore, the unusual approach of
doing that from within a CPU hotplug notifier, already commented in the
code that it deadlocks suspend, also causes lockdep issues for other
drivers or subsystems which may want to legitimately register a CPU
hotplug notifier from a platform bus notifier.
All of these issues can be solved by ripping this unusual behaviour out
completely, simply tying the platform devices to the lifetime of the
module itself, and directly managing the hwmon interfaces from the
hotplug notifiers. There is a slight user-visible change in that
/sys/bus/platform/drivers/coretemp will no longer appear, and
/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.n will remain present if package n is
hotplugged off, but hwmon users should really only be looking for the
presence of the hwmon interfaces, whose behaviour remains unchanged.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Version: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 |
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