CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50669
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
misc: ocxl: fix possible name leak in ocxl_file_register_afu()
If device_register() returns error in ocxl_file_register_afu(),
the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment
of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give
up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling
put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(),
and info is freed in info_release().
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cd05062371a49774e8a45258bdedf0bd6d3d327 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fce8b3583d1641a1716486f408478b58e96ec91 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3299983a6bf628249ac650908e62d12de959341e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/557b7de055d1e230ddb6664c29d26917b8db9143 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7525741cb302a1672b8c3a5edb2a08e4229b5c7c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4cb1004aeed2ab893a058fad00a5b41a12c4691 git.kernel.org