mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show(). 171 char *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i); 172 if (IS_ERR(label)) { 173 dev_err(wm831x->dev, "Failed to duplicate label\n"); 174 continue; 175 } The auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well, otherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
12 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that will lead to a crash. An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show(). 171 char *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i); 172 if (IS_ERR(label)) { 173 dev_err(wm831x->dev, "Failed to duplicate label\n"); 174 continue; 175 } The auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well, otherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79cbe0be6c0317b215ddd8bd3e32f0afdac48543
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/946771c2a2b1150f9b7286feadc3aa1e15a1eb16
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f6eb0ab4f95240589ee85fd9886a944cd3645b2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac6cf3ce9b7d12acb7b528248df5f87caa25fcdc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd7eb8f83fcf258f71e293f7fc52a70be8ed0128
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edca32f87329d6e341d2143a3b58ec254e8f6b88
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/36xxx/CVE-2024-36890.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36890