EDAC/versalnet: Fix device name memory leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: EDAC/versalnet: Fix device name memory leak The device name allocated via kzalloc() in init_one_mc() is assigned to dev->init_name but never freed on the normal removal path. device_register() copies init_name and then sets dev->init_name to NULL, so the name pointer becomes unreachable from the device. Thus leaking memory. Use a stack-local char array instead of using kzalloc() for name.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
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03 / CONNECTIONS
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04 / EVIDENCE
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: EDAC/versalnet: Fix device name memory leak The device name allocated via kzalloc() in init_one_mc() is assigned to dev->init_name but never freed on the normal removal path. device_register() copies init_name and then sets dev->init_name to NULL, so the name pointer becomes unreachable from the device. Thus leaking memory. Use a stack-local char array instead of using kzalloc() for name.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24d2912962d087ebff7c4984f8ac34a5f23c8dbf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cf5dd235eff6008cb04c3d8064d2acfa90616f1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b16033c8774f5fb4c0cb9b445a1dfc68f499ae6a
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/46xxx/CVE-2026-46221.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46221