CVE-2023-53596

drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 4, 2025
Updated
Jun 1, 2026
Reserved
Oct 4, 2025

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Description

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

drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device

In the current code, devres_release_all() only gets called if the device has a bus and has been probed.

This leads to issues when using bus-less or driver-less devices where the device might never get freed if a managed resource holds a reference to the device. This is happening in the DRM framework for example.

We should thus call devres_release_all() in the device_del() function to make sure that the device-managed actions are properly executed when the device is unregistered, even if it has neither a bus nor a driver.

This is effectively the same change than commit 2f8d16a996da ("devres: release resources on device_del()") that got reverted by commit a525a3ddeaca ("driver core: free devres in device_release") over memory leaks concerns.

This patch effectively combines the two commits mentioned above to release the resources both on device_del() and device_release() and get the best of both worlds.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc to before 83e2ec36a92432e9445e853c12becbbae353b511Affected
  • a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc to before b9ef4b0aa91d2f9f5951faafdbbd47cf01799ec3Affected
  • a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc to before 297992e5c63528e603666e36081836204fc36ec9Affected
  • a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc to before 3bcc4c2a096e8342c8c719e595ce15de212694ddAffected
  • a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc to before c8c426fae26086a0ca8ab6cc6da2de79810ec038Affected
  • a525a3ddeaca69f405d98442ab3c0746e53168dc to before 699fb50d99039a50e7494de644f96c889279aca3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.7Affected
  • before 3.7Not affected
  • 5.10.258 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.209 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.53 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.4.16 through 6.4.*Not affected
  • 6.5.3 through 6.5.*Not affected
  • 6.6 and laterNot affected

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