CVE-2022-50474
kernel: macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()
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UnknownRed Hat Product Security
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Published · October 4, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
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.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
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