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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 25, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to free sugov_tunables

The struct sugov_tunables is protected by the kobject, so we can't free
it directly. Otherwise we would get a call trace like this:
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x30
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 720 at lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 PID: 720 Comm: a.sh Tainted: G W 5.14.0-rc1-next-20210715-yocto-standard+ #507
Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)
pstate: 40400009 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
pc : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
lr : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
sp : ffff80001ecaf910
x29: ffff80001ecaf910 x28: ffff00011b10b8d0 x27: ffff800011043d80
x26: ffff00011a8f0000 x25: ffff800013cb3ff0 x24: 0000000000000000
x23: ffff80001142aa68 x22: ffff800011043d80 x21: ffff00010de46f20
x20: ffff800013c0c520 x19: ffff800011d8f5b0 x18: 0000000000000010
x17: 6e6968207473696c x16: 5f72656d6974203a x15: 6570797420746365
x14: 6a626f2029302065 x13: 303378302f307830 x12: 2b6e665f72656d69
x11: ffff8000124b1560 x10: ffff800012331520 x9 : ffff8000100ca6b0
x8 : 000000000017ffe8 x7 : c0000000fffeffff x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : ffff800011d8c000 x4 : ffff800011d8c740 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : ffff0001108301c0 x1 : ab3c90eedf9c0f00 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
__debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x1c0/0x230
debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x20/0x88
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x154/0x1c8
kfree+0x114/0x5d0
sugov_exit+0xbc/0xc0
cpufreq_exit_governor+0x44/0x90
cpufreq_set_policy+0x268/0x4a8
store_scaling_governor+0xe0/0x128
store+0xc0/0xf0
sysfs_kf_write+0x54/0x80
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x128/0x1c0
new_sync_write+0xf0/0x190
vfs_write+0x2d4/0x478
ksys_write+0x74/0x100
__arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x54/0xe0
do_el0_svc+0x64/0x158
el0_svc+0x2c/0xb0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb8
el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
irq event stamp: 5518
hardirqs last enabled at (5517): [] console_unlock+0x554/0x6c8
hardirqs last disabled at (5518): [] el1_dbg+0x28/0xa0
softirqs last enabled at (5504): [] __do_softirq+0x4d0/0x6c0
softirqs last disabled at (5483): [] irq_exit+0x1b0/0x1b8

So split the original sugov_tunables_free() into two functions,
sugov_clear_global_tunables() is just used to clear the global_tunables
and the new sugov_tunables_free() is used as kobj_type::release to
release the sugov_tunables safely.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 21, 2024
Last updated Sep 25, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(0th percentile)

Weaknesses

Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference

The product attempts to return a memory resource to the system, but it calls the wrong release function or calls the appropriate release function incorrectly. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-47387

GHSA ID

GHSA-jwv9-vf83-vjmw

Source code

No known source code

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