CVE-2025-38235

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting<br /> <br /> During appletb_kbd_probe, probe attempts to get the backlight device<br /> by name. When this happens backlight_device_get_by_name looks for a<br /> device in the backlight class which has name "appletb_backlight" and<br /> upon finding a match it increments the reference count for the device<br /> and returns it to the caller. However this reference is never released<br /> leading to a reference leak.<br /> <br /> Fix this by decrementing the backlight device reference count on removal<br /> via put_device and on probe failure.