CVE-2022-50887

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
30/12/2025
Last modified:
31/12/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> regulator: core: fix unbalanced of node refcount in regulator_dev_lookup()<br /> <br /> I got the the following report:<br /> <br /> OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2,<br /> of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry:<br /> attach overlay node /i2c/pmic@62/regulators/exten<br /> <br /> In of_get_regulator(), the node is returned from of_parse_phandle()<br /> with refcount incremented, after using it, of_node_put() need be called.

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