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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-53191

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 12/27/2024 9:15:26 AM

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Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: ath12k: fix warning when unbinding

If there is an error during some initialization related to firmware,
the buffers dp->tx_ring[i].tx_status are released.
However this is released again when the device is unbinded (ath12k_pci),
and we get:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2098 at mm/slub.c:4689 free_large_kmalloc+0x4d/0x80
Call Trace:
free_large_kmalloc
ath12k_dp_free
ath12k_core_deinit
ath12k_pci_remove
...

The issue is always reproducible from a VM because the MSI addressing
initialization is failing.

In order to fix the issue, just set the buffers to NULL after releasing in
order to avoid the double free.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/223b546c6222d42147eff034433002ca5e2e7e09
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90556b96338aa6037cd26dac857327fda7c19732
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94c9100b600f05a36b33f9ed76dbd6fb0eb25386
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca68ce0d9f4bcd032fd1334441175ae399642a06