# CVE-2022-49608: pinctrl: ralink: 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: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.18

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pinctrl: ralink: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc Because of the possible failure of the allocation, data->domains might be NULL pointer and will cause the dereference of the NULL pointer later. Therefore, it might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM without releasing data manually if fails, because the comment of the devm_kmalloc() says "Memory allocated with this function is automatically freed on driver detach.".

## What to do

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13596e6c9e541e90e5fc2c52b23f08b951370da9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6194c021496addc11763d1ffa89ce5751889fe3c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5694b162f275fb9a9f89422701b2b963be11e496
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44016a85419ca0d4f1e4d0127b330f8e4e2a57d0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5595d30c4dc27d939635c3188c68203b6ece1711
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3b821e8e406d5650e587b7ac624ac24e9b780a8

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