CVE-2022-49793
iio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in iio_sysfs_trig_init()
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 1, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Reserved
- May 1, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in iio_sysfs_trig_init()
dev_set_name() allocates memory for name, it need be freed when device_add() fails, call put_device() to give up the reference that hold in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0.
Fault injection test can trigger this:
unreferenced object 0xffff8e8340a7b4c0 (size 32): comm "modprobe", pid 243, jiffies 4294678145 (age 48.845s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 69 69 6f 5f 73 79 73 66 73 5f 74 72 69 67 67 65 iio_sysfs_trigge 72 00 a7 40 83 8e ff ff 00 86 13 c4 f6 ee ff ff r..@............ backtrace: [<0000000074999de8>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e9/0x360 [<00000000497fd30b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1a0 [<000000003636c520>] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60 [<0000000032f84da2>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x1e/0x90 [<0000000092efe493>] dev_set_name+0x4e/0x70
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f68c96821b61d2c71a35dbb8bf90c347fad624d9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a39382aa5411d64b25a71516c2c7480aab13bb7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b47bb521961f027b4dcf8683337a7a1ba9e5ea1f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd52e141afde089304de470148d311b05c14564
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dddf2699da296c84205582aaead6b43dd7e8c4b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/656f670613662b6cc77aad14112db2803ad18fa8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c4e65285bdea23fd36d2ff376006ac64db6f42e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efa17e90e1711bdb084e3954fa44afb6647331c0
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