CVE-2024-36479

fpga: bridge: add owner module and take its refcount

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 24, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jun 24, 2024

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Description

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

fpga: bridge: add owner module and take its refcount

The current implementation of the fpga bridge assumes that the low-level module registers a driver for the parent device and uses its owner pointer to take the module's refcount. This approach is problematic since it can lead to a null pointer dereference while attempting to get the bridge if the parent device does not have a driver.

To address this problem, add a module owner pointer to the fpga_bridge struct and use it to take the module's refcount. Modify the function for registering a bridge to take an additional owner module parameter and rename it to avoid conflicts. Use the old function name for a helper macro that automatically sets the module that registers the bridge as the owner. This ensures compatibility with existing low-level control modules and reduces the chances of registering a bridge without setting the owner.

Also, update the documentation to keep it consistent with the new interface for registering an fpga bridge.

Other changes: opportunistically move put_device() from __fpga_bridge_get() to fpga_bridge_get() and of_fpga_bridge_get() to improve code clarity since the bridge device is taken in these functions.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 21aeda950c5f84a8351b862816d832120b217a9b to before 18dc8366abb6cadcb77668b1a16434654e355d49Affected
  • 21aeda950c5f84a8351b862816d832120b217a9b to before d7c4081c54a1d4068de9440957303a76f9e5c95bAffected
  • 21aeda950c5f84a8351b862816d832120b217a9b to before 6896b6b2e2d9ec4e1b0acb4c1698a75a4b34d125Affected
  • 21aeda950c5f84a8351b862816d832120b217a9b to before 1da11f822042eb6ef4b6064dc048f157a7852529Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.10Affected
  • before 4.10Not affected
  • 6.1.120 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.33 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.9.4 through 6.9.*Not affected
  • 6.10 and laterNot affected

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