CVE-2022-50724
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/12/2025
Last modified:
29/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
regulator: core: fix resource leak in regulator_register()<br />
<br />
I got some resource leak reports while doing fault injection test:<br />
<br />
OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 100,<br />
of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry:<br />
attach overlay node /i2c/pmic@64/regulators/buck1<br />
<br />
unreferenced object 0xffff88810deea000 (size 512):<br />
comm "490-i2c-rt5190a", pid 253, jiffies 4294859840 (age 5061.046s)<br />
hex dump (first 32 bytes):<br />
00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........<br />
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff a0 1e 00 a1 ff ff ff ff ................<br />
backtrace:<br />
[] kmalloc_trace+0x21/0x110<br />
[] device_private_init+0x32/0xd0<br />
[] device_add+0xb2d/0x1030<br />
[] regulator_register+0xaf2/0x12a0<br />
[] devm_regulator_register+0x57/0xb0<br />
[] rt5190a_probe+0x52a/0x861 [rt5190a_regulator]<br />
<br />
unreferenced object 0xffff88810b617b80 (size 32):<br />
comm "490-i2c-rt5190a", pid 253, jiffies 4294859904 (age 5060.983s)<br />
hex dump (first 32 bytes):<br />
72 65 67 75 6c 61 74 6f 72 2e 32 38 36 38 2d 53 regulator.2868-S<br />
55 50 50 4c 59 00 ff ff 29 00 00 00 2b 00 00 00 UPPLY...)...+...<br />
backtrace:<br />
[] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1b0<br />
[] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70<br />
[] create_regulator+0xc0/0x4e0<br />
[] regulator_resolve_supply+0x2d4/0x440<br />
[] regulator_register+0x10b3/0x12a0<br />
[] devm_regulator_register+0x57/0xb0<br />
[] rt5190a_probe+0x52a/0x861 [rt5190a_regulator]<br />
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After calling regulator_resolve_supply(), the &#39;rdev->supply&#39; is set<br />
by set_supply(), after this set, in the error path, the resources<br />
need be released, so call regulator_put() to avoid the leaks.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35593d60b1622834984c43add7646d4069671aa9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a03c31d08f95dca9633a552de167b9e625833a8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90b713aadc1240bf2dd03d610d6c1d016a9123a2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba62319a42c50e6254e98b3f316464fac8e77968
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4c64d8abd656b9807b63178750fa91454602b86
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f86b2f216636790d5922458578825e4628fb570f



