Bug 2350408 (CVE-2024-58081)

Summary: CVE-2024-58081 kernel: clk: mmp2: call pm_genpd_init() only after genpd.name is set
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-06 17:02:13 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

clk: mmp2: call pm_genpd_init() only after genpd.name is set

Setting the genpd's struct device's name with dev_set_name() is
happening within pm_genpd_init(). If it remains NULL, things can blow up
later, such as when crafting the devfs hierarchy for the power domain:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 when read
  ...
  Call trace:
   strlen from start_creating+0x90/0x138
   start_creating from debugfs_create_dir+0x20/0x178
   debugfs_create_dir from genpd_debug_add.part.0+0x4c/0x144
   genpd_debug_add.part.0 from genpd_debug_init+0x74/0x90
   genpd_debug_init from do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x244
   do_one_initcall from kernel_init_freeable+0x19c/0x1f4
   kernel_init_freeable from kernel_init+0x1c/0x12c
   kernel_init from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28

Bisecting tracks this crash back to commit 899f44531fe6 ("pmdomain: core:
Add GENPD_FLAG_DEV_NAME_FW flag"), which exchanges use of genpd->name
with dev_name(&genpd->dev) in genpd_debug_add.part().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-03-07 05:34:11 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025030610-CVE-2024-58081-5d47@gregkh/T

Comment 2 Avinash Hanwate 2025-03-07 10:53:12 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025030610-CVE-2024-58081-5d47@gregkh/T