# CVE-2022-49453: soc: ti: ti\_sci\_pm\_domains: Check for null return of devm\_kcalloc

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-26 · Updated: 2026-08-15

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.10

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: soc: ti: ti_sci_pm_domains: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc The allocation funciton devm_kcalloc may fail and return a null pointer, which would cause a null-pointer dereference later. It might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM just like the usage of devm_kcalloc in previous code.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05efc4591f80582b6fe53366b70b6a35a42fd255
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cef9274fa1b8506949d74bc45aef072b890824a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4e188869406b47ac3350920bf165be303cb1c96
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01ba41a359622ab256ce4d4f8b94c67165ae3daf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba56291e297d28aa6eb82c5c1964fae2d7594746

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