CVE-2022-50669

A memory leak vulnerability was found in the OpenCAPI (ocxl) driver in the Linux kernel. In ocxl_file_register_afu(), when device_register() fails, the name string allocated by dev_set_name() is not properly freed. The fix uses put_device() to correctly release resources through kobject_cleanup().

This is a memory leak in the OpenCAPI driver that affects IBM POWER systems with OpenCAPI-capable hardware. The impact is limited as it requires device registration failures to trigger and affects only specific hardware configurations.

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