CVE-2022-50349

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media()<br /> <br /> If device_register() returns error in tifm_7xx1_switch_media(),<br /> name of kobject which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add()<br /> is leaked.<br /> <br /> Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even<br /> if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the<br /> reference initialized.