CVE-2021-47500
iio: mma8452: Fix trigger reference couting
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: mma8452: Fix trigger reference couting The mma8452 driver directly assigns a trigger to the struct iio_dev. The IIO core when done using this trigger will call `iio_trigger_put()` to drop the reference count by 1. Without the matching `iio_trigger_get()` in the driver the reference count can reach 0 too early, the trigger gets freed while still in use and a use-after-free occurs. Fix this by getting a reference to the trigger before assigning it to the IIO device.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/094d513b78b1714113bc016684b8142382e071ba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/794c0898f6bf39a458655d5fb4af70ec43a5cfcb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acf0088ac073ca6e7f4cad6acac112177e08df5e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c43517071dfc9fce34f8f69dbb98a86017f6b739
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd0082235783f814241a1c9483fb89e405f4f892
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