Bug 2426250 (CVE-2023-54259) - CVE-2023-54259 kernel: soundwire: bus: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_put() causing usage count underflow
Summary: CVE-2023-54259 kernel: soundwire: bus: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_put() causin...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-54259
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-30 13:19 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:19:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

soundwire: bus: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_put() causing usage count underflow

This reverts commit
443a98e649b4 ("soundwire: bus: use pm_runtime_resume_and_get()")

Change calls to pm_runtime_resume_and_get() back to pm_runtime_get_sync().
This fixes a usage count underrun caused by doing a pm_runtime_put() even
though pm_runtime_resume_and_get() returned an error.

The three affected functions ignore -EACCES error from trying to get
pm_runtime, and carry on, including a put at the end of the function.
But pm_runtime_resume_and_get() does not increment the usage count if it
returns an error. So in the -EACCES case you must not call
pm_runtime_put().

The documentation for pm_runtime_get_sync() says:
 "Consider using pm_runtime_resume_and_get() ...  as this is likely to
 result in cleaner code."

In this case I don't think it results in cleaner code because the
pm_runtime_put() at the end of the function would have to be conditional on
the return value from pm_runtime_resume_and_get() at the top of the
function.

pm_runtime_get_sync() doesn't have this problem because it always
increments the count, so always needs a put. The code can just flow through
and do the pm_runtime_put() unconditionally.


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