Bug 2424990 (CVE-2023-54017) - CVE-2023-54017 kernel: powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()
Summary: CVE-2023-54017 kernel: powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_b...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-54017
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-24 12:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-25 10:38 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 12:06:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()

If device_register() returns error in ibmebus_bus_init(), name of kobject
which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked.

As comment of device_add() says, it should call put_device() to drop
the reference count that was set in device_initialize() when it fails,
so the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().


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