Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-50057 - Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: tipd: Free IRQ only if it was requested before In polling mode, if no IRQ was requested there is no need to free it. Call devm_free_irq() only if client->irq is set. This fixes the warning caused by the tps6598x module removal: WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 333 at kernel/irq/devres.c:144 devm_free_irq+0x80/0x8c ... ... Call trace: devm_free_irq+0x80/0x8c tps6598x_remove+0x28/0x88 [tps6598x] i2c_device_remove+0x2c/0x9c device_remove+0x4c/0x80 device_release_driver_internal+0x1cc/0x228 driver_detach+0x50/0x98 bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xbc driver_unregister+0x30/0x60 i2c_del_driver+0x54/0x64 tps6598x_i2c_driver_exit+0x18/0xc3c [tps6598x] __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x184/0x264 invoke_syscall+0x48/0x110 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xe8 do_el0_svc+0x20/0x2c el0_svc+0x28/0x98 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194