CVE-2023-53514

gpu: host1x: Fix memory leak of device names

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 1, 2025

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Description

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

gpu: host1x: Fix memory leak of device names

The device names allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed before module unloading, but they can not be freed because the kobject's refcount which was set in device_initialize() has not be decreased to 0.

As comment of device_add() says, if it fails, use only put_device() drop the refcount, then the name will be freed in kobejct_cleanup().

device_del() and put_device() can be replaced with device_unregister(), so call it to unregister the added successfully devices, and just call put_device() to the not added device.

Add a release() function to device to avoid null release() function WARNING in device_release(), it's empty, because the context devices are freed together in host1x_memory_context_list_free().

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8aa5bcb61612060429223d1fbb7a1c30a579fc1f to before 958c6cbc32996c375af42db96ceba021a1959899Affected
  • 8aa5bcb61612060429223d1fbb7a1c30a579fc1f to before dba1aeaaf3d0e2f996cb0a5609e5e85ecf405a5cAffected
  • 8aa5bcb61612060429223d1fbb7a1c30a579fc1f to before 3ab0f5ddb761270b11d8c90b8550a59666cfc9bbAffected
  • 8aa5bcb61612060429223d1fbb7a1c30a579fc1f to before 55879dad0f3ae8468444b42f785ad79eac05fe5bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.0Affected
  • before 6.0Not affected
  • 6.1.28 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2.15 through 6.2.*Not affected
  • 6.3.2 through 6.3.*Not affected
  • 6.4 and laterNot affected

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