Bug 2401533 (CVE-2022-50474) - CVE-2022-50474 kernel: macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()
Summary: CVE-2022-50474 kernel: macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_d...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50474
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-10-04 16:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 12:09 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:05:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()

Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's
bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically. It
needs to be freed when of_device_register() fails. Call put_device() to
give up the reference that's taken in device_initialize(), so that it
can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hits 0.

macio device is freed in macio_release_dev(), so the kfree() can be
removed.


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