CVE-2025-37905 — firmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices

Using device_find_child() to lookup the proper SCMI device to destroy causes an unbalance in device refcount, since device_find_child() calls an implicit get_device(): this, in turns, inhibits the call of the provided release methods upon devices destruction.

As a consequence, one of the structures that is not freed properly upon destruction is the internal struct device_private dev->p populated by the drivers subsystem core.

KMemleak detects this situation since loading/unloding some SCMI driver causes related devices to be created/destroyed without calling any device_release method.

unreferenced object 0xffff00000f583800 (size 512): comm "insmod", pid 227, jiffies 4294912190 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 60 36 1d 8a 00 80 ff ff ........`6...... backtrace (crc 114e2eed): kmemleak_alloc+0xbc/0xd8 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2dc/0x398 device_add+0x954/0x12d0 device_register+0x28/0x40 __scmi_device_create.part.0+0x1bc/0x380 scmi_device_create+0x2d0/0x390 scmi_create_protocol_devices+0x74/0xf8 scmi_device_request_notifier+0x1f8/0x2a8 notifier_call_chain+0x110/0x3b0 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x70/0xb0 scmi_driver_register+0x350/0x7f0 0xffff80000a3b3038 do_one_initcall+0x12c/0x730 do_in…

USN-7649-1 — linux, linux-gcp, linux-raspi, linux-realtime vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:25.04: linux, Ubuntu:25.04: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:25.04: linux-raspi, Ubuntu:25.04: linux-realtime

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - PA-RISC architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Compute Acceleration Framework; - Ublk userspace block driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - ARM SCMI message protocol; - GPU drivers; - IOMMU subsystem; - IRQ chip drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Network drivers; - PCI subsystem; - PTP clock framework; - SPI subsystem; - BTRFS file system; - SMB network file system; - eXpress Data Path; - Universal MIDI packet (UMP) support module; - Tracing infrastructure; - Memory management; - IPv4 networking; - IPv6 networking; - Network traffic control; - AMD SoC Alsa drivers; - SoC Audio generic drivers; (CVE-2025-37898, CVE-2025-37990, CVE-2025-37974, CVE-2025-37991, CVE-2025-37894, CVE-2025-37906, CVE-2025-37896, CVE-2025-37909, CVE-2025-37923, CVE-2025-37899, CVE-2025-37901, CVE-2025-37914, CVE-2025-38216, CVE-2025-37931, CVE-2025-37928, CVE-2025-37916, CVE-2025-37908, CVE-2025-37915, CVE-2025-37917, CVE-2025-37921, CVE-2025-37903, CVE-2025-37922, CVE-2025-37895, CVE-2025-37936, CVE-2025-37933, CVE-2025-37891, CVE-2025-37926, CVE-2025-37912, CVE-2025-37920, CVE-2025-37924, CVE-2025-37927, CVE-2025-37946, CVE-2025-37907, CVE-2025-37930, CVE-2025-37911, CVE-2025-37905, CVE-2025-37900, CVE-202…

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CVE-2025-37905 — firmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices

USN-7649-1 — linux, linux-gcp, linux-raspi, linux-realtime vulnerabilities