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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 16, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj

CVE-2022-48775

Description

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().

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