CVE-2022-49656
Moderate
ARM: meson: Fix refcount leak in meson_smp_prepare_cpus
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: meson: Fix refcount leak in meson_smp_prepare_cpus of_find_compatible_node() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
February 26, 2025
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2022-49656
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: meson: Fix refcount leak in meson_smp_prepare_cpus of_find_compatible_node() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when done. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e1bcd33478ef44e63a45457055060b5fe4118ad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34d2cd3fccced12b958b8848e3eff0ee4296764c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cf8ece9113242c10f83c7675ea4f4f67959ee43
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d90607e7e6afa89768b0aaa915b58bd2b849276
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7208101ded1e9dcc52c8f0f8b16474211c871c1a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5fbf4f74c94fd60d5e9bf9f7f8268c3601562ca
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49656.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49656