fkie_cve-2025-38682
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-09-04 16:15
Modified
2025-09-05 17:47
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i2c: core: Fix double-free of fwnode in i2c_unregister_device()
Before commit df6d7277e552 ("i2c: core: Do not dereference fwnode in struct
device"), i2c_unregister_device() only called fwnode_handle_put() on
of_node-s in the form of calling of_node_put(client->dev.of_node).
But after this commit the i2c_client's fwnode now unconditionally gets
fwnode_handle_put() on it.
When the i2c_client has no primary (ACPI / OF) fwnode but it does have
a software fwnode, the software-node will be the primary node and
fwnode_handle_put() will put() it.
But for the software fwnode device_remove_software_node() will also put()
it leading to a double free:
[ 82.665598] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 82.665609] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
[ 82.665808] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1502 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x11
...
[ 82.666830] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110
...
[ 82.666962] <TASK>
[ 82.666971] i2c_unregister_device+0x60/0x90
Fix this by not calling fwnode_handle_put() when the primary fwnode is
a software-node.
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{
"cveTags": [],
"descriptions": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni2c: core: Fix double-free of fwnode in i2c_unregister_device()\n\nBefore commit df6d7277e552 (\"i2c: core: Do not dereference fwnode in struct\ndevice\"), i2c_unregister_device() only called fwnode_handle_put() on\nof_node-s in the form of calling of_node_put(client-\u003edev.of_node).\n\nBut after this commit the i2c_client\u0027s fwnode now unconditionally gets\nfwnode_handle_put() on it.\n\nWhen the i2c_client has no primary (ACPI / OF) fwnode but it does have\na software fwnode, the software-node will be the primary node and\nfwnode_handle_put() will put() it.\n\nBut for the software fwnode device_remove_software_node() will also put()\nit leading to a double free:\n\n[ 82.665598] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 82.665609] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.\n[ 82.665808] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1502 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x11\n...\n[ 82.666830] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110\n...\n[ 82.666962] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 82.666971] i2c_unregister_device+0x60/0x90\n\nFix this by not calling fwnode_handle_put() when the primary fwnode is\na software-node."
}
],
"id": "CVE-2025-38682",
"lastModified": "2025-09-05T17:47:24.833",
"metrics": {},
"published": "2025-09-04T16:15:35.910",
"references": [
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c24e5fc0c7096e00c202a6a3e0c342c1afb47c2"
},
{
"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffe02f7c4e36090154646612e67d331832f92037"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}
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