CVE-2022-50566
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 />
<br />
mtd: Fix device name leak when register device failed in add_mtd_device()<br />
<br />
There is a kmemleak when register device failed:<br />
unreferenced object 0xffff888101aab550 (size 8):<br />
comm "insmod", pid 3922, jiffies 4295277753 (age 925.408s)<br />
hex dump (first 8 bytes):<br />
6d 74 64 30 00 88 ff ff mtd0....<br />
backtrace:<br />
[] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4e/0x150<br />
[] kvasprintf+0xb0/0x130<br />
[] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x2f/0xb0<br />
[] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0<br />
[] add_mtd_device+0x4bb/0x700<br />
[] mtd_device_parse_register+0x2ac/0x3f0<br />
[] 0xffffffffa0238457<br />
[] 0xffffffffa02a008f<br />
[] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0<br />
[] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320<br />
[] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330<br />
[] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0<br />
[] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80<br />
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0<br />
<br />
If register device failed, should call put_device() to give up the<br />
reference.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b172fb05d6315ecec082fd7544a3390e96f0d7e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2302e2dc42b1f84f951c725ce742fc21c5a1e151
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/330bc5533e8a8ed69cb951d5a8edce9bddb9db21
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71212d73184845c944ef1b43f092e643e5bde003
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/895d68a39481a75c680aa421546931fb11942fa6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a75f45afa932bfb24a2603ebcea5efd2e7cdcfd6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcabe1dc2a344adbb3382930a23e273ba9382277
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db07fe76df01f40cb897d6e9066b84e46957beb3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa0d32ab8407d7481450c664fd0de64f2dae9489



