Bug 2367611 (CVE-2025-37989) - CVE-2025-37989 kernel: net: phy: leds: fix memory leak
Summary: CVE-2025-37989 kernel: net: phy: leds: fix memory leak
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-37989
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-05-20 18:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-21 05:21 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-20 18:01:45 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: phy: leds: fix memory leak

A network restart test on a router led to an out-of-memory condition,
which was traced to a memory leak in the PHY LED trigger code.

The root cause is misuse of the devm API. The registration function
(phy_led_triggers_register) is called from phy_attach_direct, not
phy_probe, and the unregister function (phy_led_triggers_unregister)
is called from phy_detach, not phy_remove. This means the register and
unregister functions can be called multiple times for the same PHY
device, but devm-allocated memory is not freed until the driver is
unbound.

This also prevents kmemleak from detecting the leak, as the devm API
internally stores the allocated pointer.

Fix this by replacing devm_kzalloc/devm_kcalloc with standard
kzalloc/kcalloc, and add the corresponding kfree calls in the unregister
path.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-21 05:05:05 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025052038-CVE-2025-37989-c834@gregkh/T


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