CVE-2025-71288 PUBLISHED

memory: mtk-smi: fix device leaks on common probe

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 06.05.2026 Published: 06.05.2026 Updated: 06.05.2026

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

memory: mtk-smi: fix device leaks on common probe

Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the SMI device during common probe on late probe failure (e.g. probe deferral) and on driver unbind.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 47404757702ec8aa5c8310cdf58a267081f0ce6c to b8b2cf42b94c0a8efe43279643935256a6f58b9f (excl.)
  • affected from 47404757702ec8aa5c8310cdf58a267081f0ce6c to b16599fedf49fd42d174fba342a0b56103df3169 (excl.)
  • affected from 47404757702ec8aa5c8310cdf58a267081f0ce6c to 984992f31cfb71b25cd0a72ef51ceb5dd6f187e8 (excl.)
  • affected from 47404757702ec8aa5c8310cdf58a267081f0ce6c to b44d090d6ca159d94b59ad4cc44ffdaca094df82 (excl.)
  • affected from 47404757702ec8aa5c8310cdf58a267081f0ce6c to 9704564a70399c2787f5a7c5d347add721056e9d (excl.)
  • affected from 47404757702ec8aa5c8310cdf58a267081f0ce6c to 6cfa038bddd710f544076ea2ef7792fc82fbedd6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.167 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.130 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.77 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.17 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.6 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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