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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025

EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()

CVE-2022-49757

Description

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

EDAC/highbank: Fix memory leak in highbank_mc_probe()

When devres_open_group() fails, it returns -ENOMEM without freeing memory allocated by edac_mc_alloc().

Call edac_mc_free() on the error handling path to avoid a memory leak.

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