In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info() The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwise there may be resource leak here. To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc fails.
Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024122727-CVE-2024-53202-f699@gregkh/T