n the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/debugfs: Fix two locking issues with thermal zone debug With the current thermal zone locking arrangement in the debugfs code, user space can open the "mitigations" file for a thermal zone before the zone's debugfs pointer is set which will result in a NULL pointer dereference in tze_seq_start(). Moreover, thermal_debug_tz_remove() is not called under the thermal zone lock, so it can run in parallel with the other functions accessing the thermal zone's struct thermal_debugfs object. Then, it may clear tz->debugfs after one of those functions has checked it and the struct thermal_debugfs object may be freed prematurely. To address the first problem, pass a pointer to the thermal zone's struct thermal_debugfs object to debugfs_create_file() in thermal_debug_tz_add() and make tze_seq_start(), tze_seq_next(), tze_seq_stop(), and tze_seq_show() retrieve it from s->private instead of a pointer to the thermal zone object. This will ensure that tz_debugfs will be valid across the "mitigations" file accesses until thermal_debugfs_remove_id() called by thermal_debug_tz_remove() removes that file. To address the second problem, use tz->lock in thermal_debug_tz_remove() around the tz->debugfs value check (in case the same thermal zone is removed at the same time in two different threads) and its reset to NULL. Cc :6.8+ <[email protected]> # 6.8+
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| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c57bdd0505422d5ccd2df541d993aec978c842e - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7f7c37271787a7f77d7eedc132b0b419a76b4c8 - Patch | |
| CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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| CWE | CWE-667 | |
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v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5 |
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| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c57bdd0505422d5ccd2df541d993aec978c842e - | |
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Published : 2024-06-03 08:15
Updated : 2025-09-17 22:22
NVD link : CVE-2024-36961
Mitre link : CVE-2024-36961
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-36961
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