Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-49284
CVE-2022-49284
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
coresight: syscfg: Fix memleak on registration failure in cscfg_create_device
device_register() calls device_initialize(), according to doc of device_initialize:
Use put_device() to give up your reference instead of freeing * @dev directly once you have called this function.
To prevent potential memleak, use put_device() for error handling.
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