CVE-2023-54259

Linux Kernel - Usage Count Underrun via Unbalanced pm_runtime_put()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 7.0%

Details

Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 5.19.0 - 6.1.30linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.3.4linux
Linux/Linux < 5.19
Linux/Linux 443a98e649b469b4e6a2832799853a5764ef9002 - 203aa4374c433159f163acde2d0bd4118f23bbaf
Linux/Linux 443a98e649b469b4e6a2832799853a5764ef9002 - 4e5e9da139c007dfc397a159093b4c4187ee67fa
Linux/Linux 443a98e649b469b4e6a2832799853a5764ef9002 - e9537962519e88969f5f69cd0571eb4f6984403c
Linux/Linux 5.19
Linux/Linux 6.1.30 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.3.4 - 6.3.*
Linux/Linux 6.4
Published Dec 30, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026