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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025

irqchip/gic-v3: Fix error handling in gic_populate_ppi_partitions

CVE-2022-49716

Description

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

irqchip/gic-v3: Fix error handling in gic_populate_ppi_partitions

of_get_child_by_name() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore. When kcalloc fails, it missing of_node_put() and results in refcount leak. Fix this by goto out_put_node label.

Affected products

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Patches

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