Bug 2400772 (CVE-2023-53514) - CVE-2023-53514 kernel: gpu: host1x: Fix memory leak of device names
Summary: CVE-2023-53514 kernel: gpu: host1x: Fix memory leak of device names
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53514
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-01 12:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-01 20:06 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:06:35 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gpu: host1x: Fix memory leak of device names

The device names allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed
before module unloading, but they can not be freed because
the kobject's refcount which was set in device_initialize()
has not be decreased to 0.

As comment of device_add() says, if it fails, use only
put_device() drop the refcount, then the name will be
freed in kobejct_cleanup().

device_del() and put_device() can be replaced with
device_unregister(), so call it to unregister the added
successfully devices, and just call put_device() to the
not added device.

Add a release() function to device to avoid null release()
function WARNING in device_release(), it's empty, because
the context devices are freed together in
host1x_memory_context_list_free().


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