Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025

ibmvnic: Free rwi on reset success

CVE-2022-49906

Description

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

Free the rwi structure in the event that the last rwi in the list processed successfully. The logic in commit 4f408e1fa6e1 ("ibmvnic: retry reset if there are no other resets") introduces an issue that results in a 32 byte memory leak whenever the last rwi in the list gets processed.

Affected products

Linux/ibmvnicllm-fuzzy
Linux/Linuxv5
Range: 5.14

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/535b78739ae75f257c894a05b1afa86ad9a3669emitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3543a287cfba9105dcc4bb41eb817f51266caafmitre
git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6dd2fe71153f0ff748bf188bd4af076fe09a0a6mitre

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