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CVE-2022-50462

MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from vpe_device_release().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 170e9913c2ed5cfc37c0adf0fdbd368d2d8d8168; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 9d180e0bb21c57bd6cca2adeb672d3b522e910b5; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 851ae5640875f06494e40002cd503b11a634c6fb; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before b3325a443525e3b89151879b834519b21c5e3011; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 48d42f4464d713fbdd79f334fdcd6e5be534cc67; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before e820a8192ff68570100347855b567512aec43819; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before b191dde84e40624d5577f64db0ec922c5c0ec57c; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before ab3d47c1fd0202821abd473ca87580faafd47847; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 5822e8cc84ee37338ab0bdc3124f6eec04dc232d
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.30; unaffected 0 before 2.6.30; unaffected 4.9.337 through 4.9.*; unaffected 4.14.303 through 4.14.*; unaffected 4.19.270 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.229 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.163 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.86 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.16 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1.2 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.2 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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