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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025

backlight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable()

CVE-2025-23144

Description

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

backlight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable()

Lockdep detects the following issue on led-backlight removal: [ 142.315935] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 142.315954] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 292 at drivers/leds/led-core.c:455 led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80 ... [ 142.500725] Call trace: [ 142.503176] led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80 (P) [ 142.507370] led_bl_remove+0x80/0xa8 [led_bl] [ 142.511742] platform_remove+0x30/0x58 [ 142.515501] device_remove+0x54/0x90 ...

Indeed, led_sysfs_enable() has to be called with the led_access lock held.

Hold the lock when calling led_sysfs_disable().

Affected products

80

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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