# CVE-2024-53075: riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-11-19 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.11

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes When populating cache leaves we previously fetched the CPU device node at the very beginning. But when ACPI is enabled we go through a specific branch which returns early and does not call 'of_node_put' for the node that was acquired. Since we are not using a CPU device node for the ACPI code anyways, we can simply move the initialization of it just passed the ACPI block, and we are guaranteed to have an 'of_node_put' call for the acquired node. This prevents a bad reference count of the CPU device node. Moreover, the previous function did not check for errors when acquiring the device node, so a return -ENOENT has been added for that case.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80aec5a855106c668b5978c48e789f010198b832
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/303846a3dc275e35fbb556d72f1e356ba669e4f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37233169a6ea912020c572f870075a63293b786a

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