Bug 2401526 (CVE-2022-50500) - CVE-2022-50500 kernel: netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_drv_probe() when nsim_dev_resources_register() failed
Summary: CVE-2022-50500 kernel: netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_drv_probe() when ns...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50500
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-04 16:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-06 13:52 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:05:38 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_drv_probe() when nsim_dev_resources_register() failed

If some items in nsim_dev_resources_register() fail, memory leak will
occur. The following is the memory leak information.

unreferenced object 0xffff888074c02600 (size 128):
  comm "echo", pid 8159, jiffies 4294945184 (age 493.530s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    40 47 ea 89 ff ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  @G..............
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ................
  backtrace:
    [<0000000011a31c98>] kmalloc_trace+0x22/0x60
    [<0000000027384c69>] devl_resource_register+0x144/0x4e0
    [<00000000a16db248>] nsim_drv_probe+0x37a/0x1260
    [<000000007d1f448c>] really_probe+0x20b/0xb10
    [<00000000c416848a>] __driver_probe_device+0x1b3/0x4a0
    [<00000000077e0351>] driver_probe_device+0x49/0x140
    [<0000000054f2465a>] __device_attach_driver+0x18c/0x2a0
    [<000000008538f359>] bus_for_each_drv+0x151/0x1d0
    [<0000000038e09747>] __device_attach+0x1c9/0x4e0
    [<00000000dd86e533>] bus_probe_device+0x1d5/0x280
    [<00000000839bea35>] device_add+0xae0/0x1cb0
    [<000000009c2abf46>] new_device_store+0x3b6/0x5f0
    [<00000000fb823d7f>] bus_attr_store+0x72/0xa0
    [<000000007acc4295>] sysfs_kf_write+0x106/0x160
    [<000000005f50cb4d>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x5a0
    [<0000000075eb41bf>] vfs_write+0x8f0/0xc80


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