CVE-2025-38384

mtd: spinand: fix memory leak of ECC engine conf

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 25, 2025
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

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

mtd: spinand: fix memory leak of ECC engine conf

Memory allocated for the ECC engine conf is not released during spinand cleanup. Below kmemleak trace is seen for this memory leak:

unreferenced object 0xffffff80064f00e0 (size 8): comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294937458 hex dump (first 8 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ backtrace (crc 0): kmemleak_alloc+0x30/0x40 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x208/0x3c0 spinand_ondie_ecc_init_ctx+0x114/0x200 nand_ecc_init_ctx+0x70/0xa8 nanddev_ecc_engine_init+0xec/0x27c spinand_probe+0xa2c/0x1620 spi_mem_probe+0x130/0x21c spi_probe+0xf0/0x170 really_probe+0x17c/0x6e8 __driver_probe_device+0x17c/0x21c driver_probe_device+0x58/0x180 __device_attach_driver+0x15c/0x1f8 bus_for_each_drv+0xec/0x150 __device_attach+0x188/0x24c device_initial_probe+0x10/0x20 bus_probe_device+0x11c/0x160

Fix the leak by calling nanddev_ecc_engine_cleanup() inside spinand_cleanup().

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before 68d3417305ee100dcad90fd6e5846b22497aa394Affected 3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before f99408670407abb6493780e38cb4ece3fbb52cfcAffected 3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before d5c1e3f32902ab518519d05515ee6030fd6c59aeAffected 3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before c40b207cafd006c610832ba52a81cedee77adcb9Affected 3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before 93147abf80a831dd3b5660b3309b4f09546073b2Affected 3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before 6463cbe08b0cbf9bba8763306764f5fd643023e1Affected
LinuxLinux	5.11Affected before 5.11Not affected 5.15.187 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.144 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.97 through 6.6.Not affected 6.12.37 through 6.12.Not affected 6.15.6 through 6.15.*Not affected 6.16 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before 68d3417305ee100dcad90fd6e5846b22497aa394Affected
3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before f99408670407abb6493780e38cb4ece3fbb52cfcAffected
3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before d5c1e3f32902ab518519d05515ee6030fd6c59aeAffected
3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before c40b207cafd006c610832ba52a81cedee77adcb9Affected
3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before 93147abf80a831dd3b5660b3309b4f09546073b2Affected
3d1f08b032dc4e168f3aefed1e07a63c3c080325 to before 6463cbe08b0cbf9bba8763306764f5fd643023e1Affected

LinuxLinux

5.11Affected
before 5.11Not affected
5.15.187 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.144 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.97 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.12.37 through 6.12.*Not affected
6.15.6 through 6.15.*Not affected
6.16 and laterNot affected

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