CVE-2023-54259: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soundwire: bus: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_put() causing usage count underflow This reverts…

PriorityP422medium5.5

EPSS

0.17%

6.9th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soundwire: bus: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_put() causing usage count underflow This reverts commit 443a98e649b4 ("soundwire: bus: use pm_runtime_resume_and_get()") Change calls to pm_runtime_resume_and_get() back to pm_runtime_get_sync(). This fixes a usage count underrun caused by doing a pm_runtime_put() even though pm_runtime_resume_and_get() returned an error. The three affected functions ignore -EACCES error from trying to get pm_runtime, and carry on, including a put at the end of the function. But pm_runtime_resume_and_get() does not increment the usage count if it returns an error. So in the -EACCES case you must not call pm_runtime_put(). The documentation for pm_runtime_get_sync() says: "Consider using pm_runtime_resume_and_get() ... as this is likely to result in cleaner code." In this case I don't think it results in cleaner code because the pm_runtime_put() at the end of the function would have to be conditional on the return value from pm_runtime_resume_and_get() at the top of the function. pm_runtime_get_sync() doesn't have this problem because it always increments the count, so always needs a put. The code can just flow through and do the pm_runtime_put() unconditionally.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)	linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= 443a98e649b469b4e6a2832799853a5764ef9002 < 4e5e9da139c007dfc397a159093b4c4187ee67fa	4e5e9da139c007dfc397a159093b4c4187ee67fa
linux	linux	>= 443a98e649b469b4e6a2832799853a5764ef9002 < 203aa4374c433159f163acde2d0bd4118f23bbaf	203aa4374c433159f163acde2d0bd4118f23bbaf
linux	linux	>= 443a98e649b469b4e6a2832799853a5764ef9002 < e9537962519e88969f5f69cd0571eb4f6984403c	e9537962519e88969f5f69cd0571eb4f6984403c
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.1.37-1	6.1.37-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.3.7-1	6.3.7-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.3.7-1	6.3.7-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.19.0 < 6.1.30	6.1.30
linux	linux_kernel	>= 6.2.0 < 6.3.4	6.3.4

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