{"id":"CVE-2025-68204","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"pmdomain: arm: scmi: Fix genpd leak on provider registration failure","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npmdomain: arm: scmi: Fix genpd leak on provider registration failure\n\nIf of_genpd_add_provider_onecell() fails during probe, the previously\ncreated generic power domains are not removed, leading to a memory leak\nand potential kernel crash later in genpd_debug_add().\n\nAdd proper error handling to unwind the initialized domains before\nreturning from probe to ensure all resources are correctly released on\nfailure.\n\nExample crash trace observed without this fix:\n\n  | Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffffffffffc70\n  | CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1 #405 PREEMPT\n  | Hardware name: ARM LTD ARM Juno Development Platform/ARM Juno Development Platform\n  | pstate: 00000005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n  | pc : genpd_debug_add+0x2c/0x160\n  | lr : genpd_debug_init+0x74/0x98\n  | Call trace:\n  |  genpd_debug_add+0x2c/0x160 (P)\n  |  genpd_debug_init+0x74/0x98\n  |  do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x2d8\n  |  do_initcall_level+0xa0/0x140\n  |  do_initcalls+0x60/0xa8\n  |  do_basic_setup+0x28/0x40\n  |  kernel_init_freeable+0xe8/0x170\n  |  kernel_init+0x2c/0x140\n  |  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20","publishedAt":"2025-12-16T13:48:31.850Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-11T21:48:43.753Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux 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