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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 21, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak

CVE-2022-48896

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ixgbe: fix pci device refcount leak

As the comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns a PCI device with refcount incremented, when finish using it, the caller must decrement the reference count by calling pci_dev_put().

In ixgbe_get_first_secondary_devfn() and ixgbe_x550em_a_has_mii(), pci_dev_put() is called to avoid leak.

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