Bug 2405763 (CVE-2022-50561)

Summary: CVE-2022-50561 kernel: iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-22 14:05:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset()

When iio_device_register_sysfs_group() returns failed,
iio_device_register_eventset() needs to free attrs array.

Otherwise, kmemleak would scan & report memory leak as below:

unreferenced object 0xffff88810a1cc3c0 (size 32):
  comm "100-i2c-vcnl302", pid 728, jiffies 4295052307 (age 156.027s)
  backtrace:
    __kmalloc+0x46/0x1b0
    iio_device_register_eventset at drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c:541
    __iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:1959
    __devm_iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:2040