# CVE-2022-50474: macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio\_add\_one\_device()

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-04 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.30

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device() Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically. It needs to be freed when of_device_register() fails. Call put_device() to give up the reference that's taken in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hits 0. macio device is freed in macio_release_dev(), so the kfree() can be removed.

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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/3a866ff6fc2232c8e393cdb55ffb8ce947349e03
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa9054267366ff0a382d403d17728e21951ddbb9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35858b87a943917fa30172aa4bf01ce7adbcb42c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b29a2f1dd33ae9b94821ab2f4d398b9081786748
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ac0a7059b7bcbed35bfffa34a82c9a9e99638ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19ded60b40e86b0903c8d5bd0161437ed5107a8b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca765257feb89dacf604ced9cd233db5f865dee0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76837e7f6b30da72ad59f56291e22804a219e015
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ca86eae55a2f006e6c1edd2029b2cacb6979515

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