CVE-2022-50561
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
22/10/2025
Last modified:
22/10/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
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iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset()<br />
<br />
When iio_device_register_sysfs_group() returns failed,<br />
iio_device_register_eventset() needs to free attrs array.<br />
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Otherwise, kmemleak would scan & report memory leak as below:<br />
<br />
unreferenced object 0xffff88810a1cc3c0 (size 32):<br />
comm "100-i2c-vcnl302", pid 728, jiffies 4295052307 (age 156.027s)<br />
backtrace:<br />
__kmalloc+0x46/0x1b0<br />
iio_device_register_eventset at drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c:541<br />
__iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:1959<br />
__devm_iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:2040



