CVE-2022-50672

A vulnerability was found in the Xilinx ZynqMP IPI mailbox driver in the Linux kernel. When device_register() fails, two issues occur: the name allocated by dev_set_name() is leaked, and a subsequent call to device_unregister() in zynqmp_ipi_free_mboxes() causes a kernel crash when attempting to remove a device that was never successfully added. This can lead to memory leaks and kernel crashes.

This vulnerability affects Xilinx ZynqMP systems using the IPI mailbox driver. The impact is limited to specific ARM-based embedded systems and requires device registration failures to trigger.

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