CVE-2024-49941

gpiolib: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in gpiod_get_label()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 21, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 21, 2024

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Description

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

gpiolib: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in gpiod_get_label()

In `gpiod_get_label()`, it is possible that `srcu_dereference_check()` may return a NULL pointer, leading to a scenario where `label->str` is accessed without verifying if `label` itself is NULL.

This patch adds a proper NULL check for `label` before accessing `label->str`. The check for `label->str != NULL` is removed because `label->str` can never be NULL if `label` is not NULL.

This fixes the issue where the label name was being printed as `(efault)` when dumping the sysfs GPIO file when `label == NULL`.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a86d27693066a34a29be86f394bbad847b2d1749 to before 9ee4b907d7a5d7a53b4ff7727c371ff3d44ccbbbAffected
  • a86d27693066a34a29be86f394bbad847b2d1749 to before 7b99b5ab885993bff010ebcd93be5e511c56e28aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.9Affected
  • before 6.9Not affected
  • 6.11.3 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12 and laterNot affected

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