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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-54259"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:15:53.540Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:58:30.911Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54259"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54259.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54259"
title: "soundwire: bus: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_put() causing usage count underflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsoundwire: bus: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_put() causing usage count underflow\n\nThis reverts commit\n443a98e649b4 (\"soundwire: bus: use pm_runtime_resume_and_get()\")\n\nChange calls to pm_runtime_resume_and_get() back to pm_runtime_get_sync().\nThis fixes a usage count underrun caused by doing a pm_runtime_put() even\nthough pm_runtime_resume_and_get() returned an error.\n\nThe three affected functions ignore -EACCES error from trying to get\npm_runtime, and carry on, including a put at the end of the function.\nBut pm_runtime_resume_and_get() does not increment the usage count if it\nreturns an error. So in the -EACCES case you must not call\npm_runtime_put().\n\nThe documentation for pm_runtime_get_sync() says:\n \"Consider using pm_runtime_resume_and_get() ...  as this is likely to\n result in cleaner code.\"\n\nIn this case I don't think it results in cleaner code because the\npm_runtime_put() at the end of the function would have to be conditional on\nthe return value from pm_runtime_resume_and_get() at the top of the\nfunction.\n\npm_runtime_get_sync() doesn't have this problem because it always\nincrements the count, so always needs a put. The code can just flow through\nand do the pm_runtime_put() unconditionally."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"443a98e649b469b4e6a2832799853a5764ef9002","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e5e9da139c007dfc397a159093b4c4187ee67fa"},{"version":"443a98e649b469b4e6a2832799853a5764ef9002","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"203aa4374c433159f163acde2d0bd4118f23bbaf"},{"version":"443a98e649b469b4e6a2832799853a5764ef9002","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e9537962519e88969f5f69cd0571eb4f6984403c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.1.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.3.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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