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CVE-2022-50462

kernel: MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting

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Severity

Unknown

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Published · October 1, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting

Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from vpe_device_release().

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

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