CVE-2024-35824 misc: lis3lv02d_i2c: Fix regulators getting en-/dis-abled twice on suspend/resume

What is CVE-2024-35824?

CVE-2024-35824 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

misc: lis3lv02d_i2c: Fix regulators getting en-/dis-abled twice on suspend/resume

When not configured for wakeup lis3lv02d_i2c_suspend() will call lis3lv02d_poweroff() even if the device has already been turned off by the runtime-suspend handler and if configured for wakeup and the device is runtime-suspended at this point then it is not turned back on to serve as a wakeup source.

Before commit b1b9f7a49440 ("misc: lis3lv02d_i2c: Add missing setting of the reg_ctrl callback"), lis3lv02d_poweroff() failed to disable the regulators which as a side effect made calling poweroff() twice ok.

Now that poweroff() correctly disables the regulators, doing this twice triggers a WARN() in the regulator core:

unbalanced disables for regulator-dummy WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 92 at drivers/regulator/core.c:2999 _regulator_disable ...

Fix lis3lv02d_i2c_suspend() to not call poweroff() a second time if already runtime-suspended and add a poweron() call when necessary to make wakeup work.

lis3lv02d_i2c_resume() has similar issues, with an added weirness that it always powers on the device if it is runtime suspended, after which the first runtime-resume will call poweron() again, causing the enabled count for the regulator to increase by 1 every suspend/resume. These unbalanced regulator_enable() calls cause the regulator to never be turned off and trigger the following WARN() on driver unbind:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1724 at drivers/regulator/core.c:2396 _regulator_put

Fix this by making lis3lv02d_i2c_resume() mirror the new suspend().

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-35824?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-35824?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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Is CVE-2024-35824 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-35824 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-35824, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-35824, GHSA-wwvg-j77r-54mx, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35824.