Bug 2395385 (CVE-2022-50331) - CVE-2022-50331 kernel: wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev_new()
Summary: CVE-2022-50331 kernel: wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50331
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-15 15:10 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-17 02:45 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:10:56 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev_new()

Inject fault while probing module, if device_register() fails,
but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name
allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked. Fix this by calling
put_device(), so that name can be freed in callback function
kobject_cleanup().

unreferenced object 0xffff88810152ad20 (size 8):
  comm "modprobe", pid 252, jiffies 4294849206 (age 22.713s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    68 77 73 69 6d 30 00 ff                          hwsim0..
  backtrace:
    [<000000009c3504ed>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1b0
    [<00000000c0228a5e>] kvasprintf+0xb5/0x140
    [<00000000cff8c21f>] kvasprintf_const+0x55/0x180
    [<0000000055a1e073>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150
    [<000000000a80b139>] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0


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