CVE-2021-47205
kernel: clk: sunxi-ng: Unregister clocks/resets when unbinding
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · April 10, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: sunxi-ng: Unregister clocks/resets when unbinding
Currently, unbinding a CCU driver unmaps the device's MMIO region, while leaving its clocks/resets and their providers registered. This can cause a page fault later when some clock operation tries to perform MMIO. Fix this by separating the CCU initialization from the memory allocation, and then using a devres callback to unregister the clocks and resets.
This also fixes a memory leak of the struct ccu_reset, and uses the
correct owner (the specific platform driver) for the clocks and resets.
Early OF clock providers are never unregistered, and limited error handling is possible, so they are mostly unchanged. The error reporting is made more consistent by moving the message inside of_sunxi_ccu_probe.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE-402 · Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')