CVE-2025-71272

most: core: fix resource leak in most_register_interface error paths

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 6, 2026
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Mar 17, 2026

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Description

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

most: core: fix resource leak in most_register_interface error paths

The function most_register_interface() did not correctly release resources if it failed early (before registering the device). In these cases, it returned an error code immediately, leaking the memory allocated for the interface.

Fix this by initializing the device early via device_initialize() and calling put_device() on all error paths.

The most_register_interface() is expected to call put_device() on error which frees the resources allocated in the caller. The put_device() either calls release_mdev() or dim2_release(), depending on the caller.

Switch to using device_add() instead of device_register() to handle the split initialization.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c to before 82f42a13e3d7a07a950ee4fa2d4c74843a3e7aceAffected
  • 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c to before a49028a796d7b94f8e3ab9bd34b18f36be235459Affected
  • 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c to before af0b99b2214a10554adb5b868240d23af6e64e71Affected
  • 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c to before 2f483f3817fb0e4209ac5de928778b1da0cc8574Affected
  • 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c to before 1f4c9d8a1021281750c6cda126d6f8a40cc24e71Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.6Affected
  • before 5.6Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.75 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.16 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.6 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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