power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init 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: power: supply: ab8500: Fix memory leak in ab8500_fg_sysfs_init 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/19aa3c98ed7b2616e105946cec804f897837ab84
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/261041097ab3470f1120b7733cbf472712304d1e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31cdf7897dba1f096b74f69d840f0575b8cdb9ae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41ed61364285ff38bbbe9ca8a45c8372ba72921d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a4760463dbc6b603690938c468839985189ce0a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/879356a6a05559582b0a7895d86d2d4359745c08
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c32f6b6196b6efc1c68990dfeaac36fb8eb3b8e1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db3a61ef8e6aef3b888baa6a85926c2230c2cc56
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffb8e92b4cef92bd25563cf3d8b4489eb22bc61f
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49224.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49224