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
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 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) |
guessed | |
| 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) |
guessed |
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