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CVE-2022-50857

rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport()

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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport() If device_register() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. It should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path, so that the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and list_del() is called to delete the port from rio_mports.

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    Version range not reported

  • Linux Linux

    3.15

References 9

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