{"id":"CVE-2025-23144","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"backlight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable()","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbacklight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable()\n\nLockdep detects the following issue on led-backlight removal:\n  [  142.315935] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n  [  142.315954] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 292 at drivers/leds/led-core.c:455 led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80\n  ...\n  [  142.500725] Call trace:\n  [  142.503176]  led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80 (P)\n  [  142.507370]  led_bl_remove+0x80/0xa8 [led_bl]\n  [  142.511742]  platform_remove+0x30/0x58\n  [  142.515501]  device_remove+0x54/0x90\n  ...\n\nIndeed, led_sysfs_enable() has to be called with the led_access\nlock held.\n\nHold the lock when calling 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