misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-58078",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors misc_minor_alloc was allocating id using ida for minor only in case of MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but misc_minor_free was always freeing ids using ida_free causing a mismatch and following warn: > > WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 159 at lib/idr.c:525 ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f > > ida_free called for id=127 which is not allocated. > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ... > > [<60941eb4>] ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f > > [<605ac993>] misc_minor_free+0x3e/0xbc > > [<605acb82>] misc_deregister+0x171/0x1b3 misc_minor_alloc is changed to allocate id from ida for all minors falling in the range of dynamic/ misc dynamic minors",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:25.087573945Z",
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        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-58078",
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        "evidence": "/id"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 491304,
  "published_at": "2025-03-06T16:13:41.909+00:00"
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