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CVE-2022-50547

media: solo6x10: fix possible memory leak in solo_sysfs_init()

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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: solo6x10: fix possible memory leak in solo_sysfs_init() If device_register() returns error in solo_sysfs_init(), the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    Version range not reported

  • Linux Linux

    3.10

References 9

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