Security Advisory

CVE-2024-38611

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-06-19 13:56:12
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:20:07
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: i2c: et8ek8: Dont strip remove function when driver is builtin Using __exit for the remove function results in the remove callback being discarded with CONFIG_VIDEO_ET8EK8=y. When such a device gets unbound (e.g. using sysfs or hotplug), the driver is just removed without the cleanup being performed. This results in resource leaks. Fix it by compiling in the remove callback unconditionally. This also fixes a W=1 modpost warning: WARNING: modpost: drivers/media/i2c/et8ek8/et8ek8: section mismatch in reference: et8ek8_i2c_driver+0x10 (section: .data) -> et8ek8_remove (section: .exit.text)