CVE-2022-50857
kernel: rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport()
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Published · December 30, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
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.
Mitigation
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CVSS / CWE
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