CVE-2024-36890
mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers
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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.
Reserved 2024-05-30 | Published 2024-05-30 | Updated 2025-05-04 | Assigner Linuxgit.kernel.org/...c/9f6eb0ab4f95240589ee85fd9886a944cd3645b2
git.kernel.org/...c/ac6cf3ce9b7d12acb7b528248df5f87caa25fcdc
git.kernel.org/...c/79cbe0be6c0317b215ddd8bd3e32f0afdac48543
git.kernel.org/...c/cd7eb8f83fcf258f71e293f7fc52a70be8ed0128
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