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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025· Updated Dec 23, 2025

regulator: core: fix use_count leakage when handling boot-on

CVE-2022-50250

Description

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

regulator: core: fix use_count leakage when handling boot-on

I found a use_count leakage towards supply regulator of rdev with boot-on option.

┌───────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────┐ │ regulator_dev A │ │ regulator_dev B │ │ (boot-on) │ │ (boot-on) │ │ use_count=0 │◀──supply──│ use_count=1 │ │ │ │ │ └───────────────────┘ └───────────────────┘

In case of rdev(A) configured with `regulator-boot-on', the use_count of supplying regulator(B) will increment inside regulator_enable(rdev->supply).

Thus, B will acts like always-on, and further balanced regulator_enable/disable cannot actually disable it anymore.

However, B was also configured with `regulator-boot-on', we wish it could be disabled afterwards.

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