cve-2024-49941
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-10-21 18:02
Modified
2024-12-19 09:29
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpiolib: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in gpiod_get_label() In `gpiod_get_label()`, it is possible that `srcu_dereference_check()` may return a NULL pointer, leading to a scenario where `label->str` is accessed without verifying if `label` itself is NULL. This patch adds a proper NULL check for `label` before accessing `label->str`. The check for `label->str != NULL` is removed because `label->str` can never be NULL if `label` is not NULL. This fixes the issue where the label name was being printed as `(efault)` when dumping the sysfs GPIO file when `label == NULL`.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b99b5ab885993bff010ebcd93be5e511c56e28aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee4b907d7a5d7a53b4ff7727c371ff3d44ccbbbPatch
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Linux Linux Version: a86d27693066a34a29be86f394bbad847b2d1749
Version: a86d27693066a34a29be86f394bbad847b2d1749
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