Bug 2363279 (CVE-2025-23144)

Summary:	CVE-2025-23144 kernel: backlight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 14:01:54 UTC

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

backlight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable()

Lockdep detects the following issue on led-backlight removal:
  [  142.315935] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [  142.315954] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 292 at drivers/leds/led-core.c:455 led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80
  ...
  [  142.500725] Call trace:
  [  142.503176]  led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80 (P)
  [  142.507370]  led_bl_remove+0x80/0xa8 [led_bl]
  [  142.511742]  platform_remove+0x30/0x58
  [  142.515501]  device_remove+0x54/0x90
  ...

Indeed, led_sysfs_enable() has to be called with the led_access
lock held.

Hold the lock when calling led_sysfs_disable().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 06:20:18 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050125-CVE-2025-23144-d85a@gregkh/T