CVE-2024-26894 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ACPI: processor_idle: Fix memory leak in acpi_processor_power_exit()

After unregistering the CPU idle device the memory associated with it is not freed leading to a memory leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff896282f6c000 (size 1024): comm \swapper/0\ pid 1 jiffies 4294893170 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. backtrace (crc 8836a742): [] kmalloc_trace+0x29d/0x340 [] acpi_processor_power_init+0xf3/0x1c0 [] __acpi_processor_start+0xd3/0xf0 [] acpi_processor_start+0x2c/0x50 [] really_probe+0xe2/0x480 [] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160 [] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90 [] __driver_attach+0xce/0x1c0 [] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0 [] bus_add_driver+0x112/0x210 [] driver_register+0x55/0x100 [] acpi_processor_driver_init+0x3b/0xc0 [] do_one_initcall+0x41/0x300 [] kernel_init_freeable+0x320/0x470 [] kernel_init+0x16/0x1b0 [] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50

Fix this by freeing the CPU idle device after unregistering it.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d351bcadab6caa6d8ce7159ff4b77e2da35c09fa https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea96bf3f80625cddba1391a87613356b1b45716d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2a30c81bf3cb9033fa9f5305baf7c377075e2e5 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cbaf4c793b0808532f4e7b40bc4be7cec2c78f2 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fad9bcd4d754cc689c19dc04d2c44b82c1a5d6c8 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d48e5be107429ff5d824e7f2a00d1b610d36fbc https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d14a4d0afb49a5b8535d414c782bb334860e73e https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd5c2d0b09d5b6d3f0a7bbabe6761a4997e9dee9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e18afcb7b2a12b635ac10081f943fcf84ddacc51