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CVE-2025-68204 (GCVE-0-2025-68204)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 13:48 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:48
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Title
pmdomain: arm: scmi: Fix genpd leak on provider registration failure
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pmdomain: arm: scmi: Fix genpd leak on provider registration failure If of_genpd_add_provider_onecell() fails during probe, the previously created generic power domains are not removed, leading to a memory leak and potential kernel crash later in genpd_debug_add(). Add proper error handling to unwind the initialized domains before returning from probe to ensure all resources are correctly released on failure. Example crash trace observed without this fix: | Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffffffffffc70 | CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1 #405 PREEMPT | Hardware name: ARM LTD ARM Juno Development Platform/ARM Juno Development Platform | pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) | pc : genpd_debug_add+0x2c/0x160 | lr : genpd_debug_init+0x74/0x98 | Call trace: | genpd_debug_add+0x2c/0x160 (P) | genpd_debug_init+0x74/0x98 | do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x2d8 | do_initcall_level+0xa0/0x140 | do_initcalls+0x60/0xa8 | do_basic_setup+0x28/0x40 | kernel_init_freeable+0xe8/0x170 | kernel_init+0x2c/0x140 | ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 898216c97ed2ebfffda659ce12388da43534de6c , < 18249a167ffd91b4b4fbd92afd4ddcbf3af81f35 (git)
Affected: 898216c97ed2ebfffda659ce12388da43534de6c , < c6e11d320fd6cbaef6d589f2fcb45aa25a6b960a (git)
Affected: 898216c97ed2ebfffda659ce12388da43534de6c , < 582f48d22eb5676fe7be3589b986ddd29f7bf4d1 (git)
Affected: 898216c97ed2ebfffda659ce12388da43534de6c , < 7f569197f7ad09319af960bd7e43109de5c67c04 (git)
Affected: 898216c97ed2ebfffda659ce12388da43534de6c , < ad120c08b89a81d41d091490bbe150343473b659 (git)
Affected: 898216c97ed2ebfffda659ce12388da43534de6c , < 921b090841ae7a08b19ab14495bdf8636dc31e21 (git)
Affected: 898216c97ed2ebfffda659ce12388da43534de6c , < 983e91da82ec3e331600108f9be3ea61236f5c75 (git)
Affected: 898216c97ed2ebfffda659ce12388da43534de6c , < 7458f72cc28f9eb0de811effcb5376d0ec19094a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.302 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.247 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.197 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.118 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.59 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.9 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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