Bug 2426094 (CVE-2022-50834)

Summary: CVE-2022-50834 kernel: nfc: Fix potential resource leaks
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:08:38 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfc: Fix potential resource leaks

nfc_get_device() take reference for the device, add missing
nfc_put_device() to release it when not need anymore.
Also fix the style warnning by use error EOPNOTSUPP instead of
ENOTSUPP.
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-12-31 09:47:05 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025123017-CVE-2022-50834-2135@gregkh/T