# CVE-2022-50449: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in \_samsung\_clk\_register\_pll()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-01 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 3.12

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: clk: samsung: Fix memory leak in _samsung_clk_register_pll() If clk_register() fails, @pll->rate_table may have allocated memory by kmemdup(), so it needs to be freed, otherwise will cause memory leak issue, this patch fixes it.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b738276a596fa101d320591e9fa84ea0fc3f713
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e8dc0626fe86ae08914478dec1419618c557bc0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a00b4e0fa27317957536abf8f5d6a96d6cb9d9be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da13355bb9961316d124f94dfc7a1385d0fb035a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e501a31af8efa593a2f003637b56d00b75dca23
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4887ec922e407b4feaf060c7b099482a5c52dee3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a35323218ff32782d051d2643912311a22e07b6a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5174e5b0d1b669a489524192b6adcbb3c54ebc72

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