CVE-2025-37989
net: phy: leds: fix memory leak
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net: phy: leds: fix memory leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: leds: fix memory leak A network restart test on a router led to an out-of-memory condition, which was traced to a memory leak in the PHY LED trigger code. The root cause is misuse of the devm API. The registration function (phy_led_triggers_register) is called from phy_attach_direct, not phy_probe, and the unregister function (phy_led_triggers_unregister) is called from phy_detach, not phy_remove. This means the register and unregister functions can be called multiple times for the same PHY device, but devm-allocated memory is not freed until the driver is unbound. This also prevents kmemleak from detecting the leak, as the devm API internally stores the allocated pointer. Fix this by replacing devm_kzalloc/devm_kcalloc with standard kzalloc/kcalloc, and add the corresponding kfree calls in the unregister path.
Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-05-20 | Updated 2025-05-26 | Assigner Linuxgit.kernel.org/...c/966d6494e2ed9be9052fcd9815afba830896aaf8
git.kernel.org/...c/95bed65cc0eb2a610550abf849a8b94374da80a7
git.kernel.org/...c/663c3da86e807c6c07ed48f911c7526fad6fe1ff
git.kernel.org/...c/f41f097f68a33d392579885426d0734a81219501
git.kernel.org/...c/618541a6cc1511064dfa58c89b3445e21844092f
git.kernel.org/...c/41143e71052a00d654c15dc924fda50c1e7357d0
git.kernel.org/...c/7f3d5880800f962c347777c4f8358f29f5fc403c
git.kernel.org/...c/b7f0ee992adf601aa00c252418266177eb7ac2bc
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