Bug 2309802 (CVE-2024-44971) - CVE-2024-44971 kernel: net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcm_sf2_mdio_register()
Summary: CVE-2024-44971 kernel: net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcm_s...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-44971
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2309814
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Reported: 2024-09-04 19:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-09-04 21:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-04 19:21:28 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix a possible memory leak in bcm_sf2_mdio_register()

bcm_sf2_mdio_register() calls of_phy_find_device() and then
phy_device_remove() in a loop to remove existing PHY devices.
of_phy_find_device() eventually calls bus_find_device(), which calls
get_device() on the returned struct device * to increment the refcount.
The current implementation does not decrement the refcount, which causes
memory leak.

This commit adds the missing phy_device_free() call to decrement the
refcount via put_device() to balance the refcount.


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