CVE-2026-43301 PUBLISHED

media: chips-media: wave5: Fix PM runtime usage count underflow

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 01.05.2026 Published: 08.05.2026 Updated: 08.05.2026

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

media: chips-media: wave5: Fix PM runtime usage count underflow

Replace pm_runtime_put_sync() with pm_runtime_dont_use_autosuspend() in the remove path to properly pair with pm_runtime_use_autosuspend() from probe. This allows pm_runtime_disable() to handle reference count cleanup correctly regardless of current suspend state.

The driver calls pm_runtime_put_sync() unconditionally in remove, but the device may already be suspended due to autosuspend configured in probe. When autosuspend has already suspended the device, the usage count is 0, and pm_runtime_put_sync() decrements it to -1.

This causes the following warning on module unload:

------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 963 at kernel/kthread.c:1430 kthread_destroy_worker+0x84/0x98 ... vdec 30210000.video-codec: Runtime PM usage count underflow!

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c to 3a278a55ead50db2444c8f01410c7f5a68723990 (excl.)
  • affected from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c to 0bffda02317989f8d5cdc2d4462a4110b1290cf0 (excl.)
  • affected from 9707a6254a8a6b978bde811a44fe07d86c229d1c to 9cf4452e824c1e2d41c9c0b13cc8a32a0a7dec38 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.8 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.8 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.16 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.6 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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