Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025
pinctrl: ralink: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc
CVE-2022-49608
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: ralink: Check for null return of devm_kcalloc
Because of the possible failure of the allocation, data->domains might be NULL pointer and will cause the dereference of the NULL pointer later. Therefore, it might be better to check it and directly return -ENOMEM without releasing data manually if fails, because the comment of the devm_kmalloc() says "Memory allocated with this function is automatically freed on driver detach.".
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6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/13596e6c9e541e90e5fc2c52b23f08b951370da9mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/44016a85419ca0d4f1e4d0127b330f8e4e2a57d0mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5595d30c4dc27d939635c3188c68203b6ece1711mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5694b162f275fb9a9f89422701b2b963be11e496mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6194c021496addc11763d1ffa89ce5751889fe3cmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3b821e8e406d5650e587b7ac624ac24e9b780a8mitre
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