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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated May 4, 2025

dmaengine: idxd: Fix the error handling path in idxd_cdev_register()

CVE-2022-49422

Description

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

dmaengine: idxd: Fix the error handling path in idxd_cdev_register()

If a call to alloc_chrdev_region() fails, the already allocated resources are leaking.

Add the needed error handling path to fix the leak.

Affected products

128

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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