CVE-2022-49468

thermal/core: Fix memory leak in __thermal_cooling_device_register()

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

thermal/core: Fix memory leak in __thermal_cooling_device_register()

I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:

unreferenced object 0xffff888010080000 (size 264312): comm "182", pid 102533, jiffies 4296434960 (age 10.100s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 40 7f 1f b9 ff ff ff ff ........@....... backtrace: [<0000000038b2f4fc>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x1d/0x110 mm/slab_common.c:969 [<00000000ebcb8da5>] __kmalloc+0x373/0x420 include/linux/slab.h:510 [<0000000084137f13>] thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs+0x15d/0x2d0 include/linux/slab.h:586 [<00000000352b8755>] __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x332/0xa60 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:927 [<00000000fb9f331b>] devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register+0x6b/0xf0 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:1041 [<000000009b8012d2>] max6650_probe.cold+0x557/0x6aa drivers/hwmon/max6650.c:211 [<00000000da0b7e04>] i2c_device_probe+0x472/0xac0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:561

If device_register() fails, thermal_cooling_device_destroy_sysfs() need be called to free the memory allocated in thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8ea229511e06f9635ecc338dcbe0db41a73623f0 to before 18530bedd221160823f63ccc20dd55c7a03edbcfAffected
  • 8ea229511e06f9635ecc338dcbe0db41a73623f0 to before 21ccc58b671aea924f2481cf5c1cf0ebbfd3552dAffected
  • 8ea229511e06f9635ecc338dcbe0db41a73623f0 to before 3802171f0b5b8b831f4ade5c827547cb323a5bb2Affected
  • 8ea229511e06f9635ecc338dcbe0db41a73623f0 to before 9abdf0c0184230f0cb5c6685aabf33dda89aa9fbAffected
  • 8ea229511e06f9635ecc338dcbe0db41a73623f0 to before 98a160e898c0f4a979af9de3ab48b4b1d42d1dbbAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.17Affected
  • before 4.17Not affected
  • 5.10.121 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.46 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.17.14 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18.3 through 5.18.*Not affected
  • 5.19 and laterNot affected

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