CVE-2026-68203

Summary

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

media: vivid: fix cleanup bugs in vivid_init()

When platform_device_register() fails in vivid_init(), the embedded struct device in vivid_pdev has already been initialized by device_initialize(), but the failure path jumps to free_output_strings without dropping the device reference for the current platform device:

vivid_init() -> platform_device_register(&vivid_pdev) -> device_initialize(&vivid_pdev.dev) -> setup_pdev_dma_masks(&vivid_pdev) -> platform_device_add(&vivid_pdev)

This leads to a reference leak when platform_device_register() fails. Fix this by calling platform_device_put() before jumping to the common cleanup path.

Also, the unreg_driver label incorrectly calls platform_driver_register() instead of platform_driver_unregister(), which breaks cleanup when workqueue creation fails after successful driver registration. Fix that as well.

The reference leak was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and confirmed by manual review. The incorrect cleanup call was found during code inspection.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4385092a86b94e1f332db35a3766108978c0722f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1349af7f87df57940619f5b87990b799dac9ed8a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d51ad8f1c50c50d1abcc97fd243179967184c6a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a07c179a92e949172ca52f6d4a13202ea88cd4b7

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