CVE-2025-37989

net: phy: leds: fix memory leak

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 20, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

net: phy: leds: fix memory leak

A network restart test on a router led to an out-of-memory condition, which was traced to a memory leak in the PHY LED trigger code.

The root cause is misuse of the devm API. The registration function (phy_led_triggers_register) is called from phy_attach_direct, not phy_probe, and the unregister function (phy_led_triggers_unregister) is called from phy_detach, not phy_remove. This means the register and unregister functions can be called multiple times for the same PHY device, but devm-allocated memory is not freed until the driver is unbound.

This also prevents kmemleak from detecting the leak, as the devm API internally stores the allocated pointer.

Fix this by replacing devm_kzalloc/devm_kcalloc with standard kzalloc/kcalloc, and add the corresponding kfree calls in the unregister path.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 to before 966d6494e2ed9be9052fcd9815afba830896aaf8Affected
  • 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 to before 95bed65cc0eb2a610550abf849a8b94374da80a7Affected
  • 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 to before 663c3da86e807c6c07ed48f911c7526fad6fe1ffAffected
  • 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 to before f41f097f68a33d392579885426d0734a81219501Affected
  • 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 to before 618541a6cc1511064dfa58c89b3445e21844092fAffected
  • 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 to before 41143e71052a00d654c15dc924fda50c1e7357d0Affected
  • 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 to before 7f3d5880800f962c347777c4f8358f29f5fc403cAffected
  • 2e0bc452f4721520502575362a9cd3c1248d2337 to before b7f0ee992adf601aa00c252418266177eb7ac2bcAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.10Affected
  • before 4.10Not affected
  • 5.4.293 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.237 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.181 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.136 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.89 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.26 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.14.5 through 6.14.*Not affected
  • 6.15 and laterNot affected

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