Bug 2422732 (CVE-2025-68204) - CVE-2025-68204 kernel: pmdomain: arm: scmi: Fix genpd leak on provider registration failure
Summary: CVE-2025-68204 kernel: pmdomain: arm: scmi: Fix genpd leak on provider regist...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-68204
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-12-16 14:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-17 00:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-16 14:07:16 UTC
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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