Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()： If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails. According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()： If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/417947891bd5ae327f15efed1a0da2b12ef24962
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bc69f86328e87a0ffa79438430cc82f3aa6a194
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91d8866ca55232d21995a3d54fac96de33c9e20c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92e25b637cd4e010f776c86e4810300e773eac5c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c377e2ba78d3fe9a1f0b4ec424e75f81da7e81e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe595759c2a4a5bb41c438474f15947d8ae32f5c
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/48xxx/CVE-2022-48775.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48775