# CVE-2022-50122: ASoC: mediatek: mt8173-rt5650: Fix refcount leak in mt8173\_rt5650\_dev\_probe

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-06-18 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: mt8173-rt5650: Fix refcount leak in mt8173_rt5650_dev_probe of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore. Fix refcount leak in some error paths.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06ace427953f5036b64aed658f0055f65d76fd27
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e024a24fb264523149658c10c76bb363b3d0004d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79f566907d27abbd7600cebe51def5081d5796b5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/403d46971936f9f704b91cecffe66e44aa39e915
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/994f2edeeb2114bb22b62741cb8fb030fc7e5441
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e38e4952ac7a316c9002af30980d6aa850214474
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ec83aa7a9e5bcca80ccd49978916feb4e0ffc07
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efe2178d1a32492f99e7f1f2568eea5c88a85729

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