In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: qcom: scm: Cleanup global '__scm' on probe failures
If SCM driver fails the probe, it should not leave global '__scm' variable assigned, because external users of this driver will assume the probe finished successfully. For example TZMEM parts ('__scm->mempool') are initialized later in the probe, but users of it (__scmsmccall()) rely on the '__scm' variable.
This fixes theoretical NULL pointer exception, triggered via introducing probe deferral in SCM driver with call trace:
qcomtzmemalloc+0x70/0x1ac (P) qcomtzmemalloc+0x64/0x1ac (L) qcomscmassignmem+0x78/0x194 qcomrmtfsmemprobe+0x2d4/0x38c platform_probe+0x68/0xc8
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/57xxx/CVE-2024-57985.json",
"cna_assigner": "Linux"
}