CVE-2023-53594
Gravedad:
Pendiente de análisis
Tipo:
No Disponible / Otro tipo
Fecha de publicación:
04/10/2025
Última modificación:
06/10/2025
Descripción
*** Pendiente de traducción *** In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
driver core: fix resource leak in device_add()<br />
<br />
When calling kobject_add() failed in device_add(), it will call<br />
cleanup_glue_dir() to free resource. But in kobject_add(),<br />
dev->kobj.parent has been set to NULL. This will cause resource leak.<br />
<br />
The process is as follows:<br />
device_add()<br />
get_device_parent()<br />
class_dir_create_and_add()<br />
kobject_add() //kobject_get()<br />
...<br />
dev->kobj.parent = kobj;<br />
...<br />
kobject_add() //failed, but set dev->kobj.parent = NULL<br />
...<br />
glue_dir = get_glue_dir(dev) //glue_dir = NULL, and goto<br />
//"Error" label<br />
...<br />
cleanup_glue_dir() //becaues glue_dir is NULL, not call<br />
//kobject_put()<br />
<br />
The preceding problem may cause insmod mac80211_hwsim.ko to failed.<br />
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename &#39;/devices/virtual/mac80211_hwsim&#39;<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd1<br />
sysfs_warn_dup.cold+0x1c/0x29<br />
sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x224/0x280<br />
kobject_add_internal+0x2aa/0x880<br />
kobject_add+0x135/0x1a0<br />
get_device_parent+0x3d7/0x590<br />
device_add+0x2aa/0x1cb0<br />
device_create_groups_vargs+0x1eb/0x260<br />
device_create+0xdc/0x110<br />
mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x31e/0x4790 [mac80211_hwsim]<br />
init_mac80211_hwsim+0x48d/0x1000 [mac80211_hwsim]<br />
do_one_initcall+0x10f/0x630<br />
do_init_module+0x19f/0x5e0<br />
load_module+0x64b7/0x6eb0<br />
__do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200<br />
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0<br />
<br />
kobject_add_internal failed for mac80211_hwsim with -EEXIST, don&#39;t try to<br />
register things with the same name in the same directory.



