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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmisc: nsm: only unlock nsm_dev on post-lock error paths\n\nnsm_dev_ioctl() jumps to the common out label even when the initial\ncopy_from_user() fails before nsm->lock has been taken. The error path\nthen blindly unlocks a mutex that was never acquired.\n\nThis issue was found by our static analysis tool and then manually\nreviewed against the current tree.\n\nThe grounded PoC kept the miscdevice ioctl entry and the pre-lock\ncopy_from_user(&raw, argp, _IOC_SIZE(cmd)) failure path by issuing\nNSM_IOCTL_RAW with an invalid user pointer. That failure reaches the\nshared out label before mutex_lock(&nsm->lock). Lockdep reported:\n\n WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!\n exploit/193 is trying to release lock (&global_nsm.lock) at:\n nsm_dev_ioctl+0x5f/0xcf [vuln_msv]\n but there are no more locks to release!\n no locks held by exploit/193.\n\nReturn immediately on the pre-lock copy_from_user() failure and keep the\ncommon unlock label for the post-lock paths only."
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