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CVE-2022-50474

macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device() Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically. It needs to be freed when of_device_register() fails. Call put_device() to give up the reference that's taken in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hits 0. macio device is freed in macio_release_dev(), so the kfree() can be removed.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 3a866ff6fc2232c8e393cdb55ffb8ce947349e03; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before aa9054267366ff0a382d403d17728e21951ddbb9; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 35858b87a943917fa30172aa4bf01ce7adbcb42c; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before b29a2f1dd33ae9b94821ab2f4d398b9081786748; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 2ac0a7059b7bcbed35bfffa34a82c9a9e99638ef; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 19ded60b40e86b0903c8d5bd0161437ed5107a8b; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before ca765257feb89dacf604ced9cd233db5f865dee0; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 76837e7f6b30da72ad59f56291e22804a219e015; affected 1fa5ae857bb14f6046205171d98506d8112dd74e before 5ca86eae55a2f006e6c1edd2029b2cacb6979515
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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