CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98780
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: fix IP instance memory leak on kobject add failure
amdgpu_discovery_sysfs_ips() allocates ip_hw_instance with
kzalloc_flex() and initializes its embedded kobject before calling
kobject_add().
If kobject_add() fails, the return value is ignored and execution
continues without dropping the initial kobject reference. The failed
kobject is not retained in the kset list, so the normal sysfs teardown
path cannot find it. As a result, ip_hw_instance_release() is never
called and the ip_hw_instance allocation is leaked.
Call kobject_put() when kobject_add() fails so the initial reference is
dropped and ip_hw_instance_release() can free the allocation. Keep the
existing best-effort sysfs behavior by continuing with the remaining IP
entries after the failed registration.
The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and
confirmed by manual review.
(cherry picked from commit 5c75fbcca8af1096d8d9415b91d8ea6212c22ee1)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0563b26c1437fe7e25ea42c334eb85c0a703f8ff git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ca44cb14d0249992a8f1425ba004d6e2d16d255 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c05bbcc263d67b8b158e2a52be7e3005895969d1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5a5add3605935163dd0f75749b6a7869e9765af git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6364e7284a131556f5d763d867147bece2843a8 git.kernel.org