# CVE-2022-49860: dmaengine: ti: k3-udma-glue: fix memory leak when register device fail

- 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: 2025-05-01 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.11

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: ti: k3-udma-glue: fix memory leak when register device fail If device_register() fails, it should call put_device() to give up reference, the name allocated in dev_set_name() can be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup().

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dd27541aa2b95bde71bddd43d73f9c16d73272c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/025eab5189fc7ee223ae9b4bc49d7df196543e53
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac2b9f34f02052709aea7b34bb2a165e1853eb41

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