CVE-2023-53308 — net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in .remove()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in .remove() In the (unlikely) event that pm_runtime_get()…
Published: 2025-09-16 · CVSS: 7.8 · CVSS 3.1
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: fec: Better handle pm_runtime_get() failing in .remove() In the (unlikely) event that pm_runtime_get() (disguised as pm_runtime_resume_and_get()) fails, the remove callback returned an error early. The problem with this is that the driver core ignores the error value and continues removing the device. This results in a resource leak. Worse the devm allocated resources are freed and so if a callback of the driver is called later the register mapping is already gone which probably results in a crash.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7