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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 11, 2025· Updated Jan 5, 2026

pinmux: Use sequential access to access desc->pinmux data

CVE-2024-47141

Description

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

pinmux: Use sequential access to access desc->pinmux data

When two client of the same gpio call pinctrl_select_state() for the same functionality, we are seeing NULL pointer issue while accessing desc->mux_owner.

Let's say two processes A, B executing in pin_request() for the same pin and process A updates the desc->mux_usecount but not yet updated the desc->mux_owner while process B see the desc->mux_usecount which got updated by A path and further executes strcmp and while accessing desc->mux_owner it crashes with NULL pointer.

Serialize the access to mux related setting with a mutex lock.

cpu0 (process A) cpu1(process B)

pinctrl_select_state() { pinctrl_select_state() { pin_request() { pin_request() { ... .... } else { desc->mux_usecount++; desc->mux_usecount && strcmp(desc->mux_owner, owner)) {

if (desc->mux_usecount > 1) return 0; desc->mux_owner = owner;

} }

Affected products

73

Patches

0

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