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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmem: core: Fix memleak in nvmem_register() dev_set_name will alloc memory for nvmem->dev.kobj.name in nvmem_register, when nvmem_validate_keepouts failed, nvmem's memory will be freed and return, but nobody will free memory for nvmem->dev.kobj.name, there will be memleak, so moving nvmem_validate_keepouts() after device_register() and let the device core deal with cleaning name in error cases.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-24 | Published 2025-12-24 | Updated 2025-12-24 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

de0534df93474f268486c486ea7e01b44a478026 (git) before 9391cc3a787a58aa224a6440d7f244d780ba2896
affected

de0534df93474f268486c486ea7e01b44a478026 (git) before 2bd2774df0ce37920b23819a860a66fdbdd90823
affected

de0534df93474f268486c486ea7e01b44a478026 (git) before b6054b9b239a493672f853b034570cca93ba7a88
affected

de0534df93474f268486c486ea7e01b44a478026 (git) before bd1244561fa2a4531ded40dbf09c9599084f8b29
affected

c1d44b93ca9f3ebc26b0de0a7f4b7156702762b6 (git)
affected

63c2b13ba0428b8f477e4adb1d40a50eb4493c09 (git)
affected

Default status
affected

5.15
affected

Any version before 5.15
unaffected

5.15.75 (semver)
unaffected

5.19.17 (semver)
unaffected

6.0.3 (semver)
unaffected

6.1 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/9391cc3a787a58aa224a6440d7f244d780ba2896

git.kernel.org/...c/2bd2774df0ce37920b23819a860a66fdbdd90823

git.kernel.org/...c/b6054b9b239a493672f853b034570cca93ba7a88

git.kernel.org/...c/bd1244561fa2a4531ded40dbf09c9599084f8b29

cve.org (CVE-2022-50734)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2022-50734)

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