Bug 2420308 (CVE-2022-50659) - CVE-2022-50659 kernel: hwrng: geode - Fix PCI device refcount leak
Summary: CVE-2022-50659 kernel: hwrng: geode - Fix PCI device refcount leak
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50659
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 02:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-15 23:53 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:01:49 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwrng: geode - Fix PCI device refcount leak

for_each_pci_dev() is implemented by pci_get_device(). The comment of
pci_get_device() says that it will increase the reference count for the
returned pci_dev and also decrease the reference count for the input
pci_dev @from if it is not NULL.

If we break for_each_pci_dev() loop with pdev not NULL, we need to call
pci_dev_put() to decrease the reference count. We add a new struct
'amd_geode_priv' to record pointer of the pci_dev and membase, and then
add missing pci_dev_put() for the normal and error path.


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