Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026
media: vimc: Fix wrong function called when vimc_init() fails
CVE-2022-50340
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: vimc: Fix wrong function called when vimc_init() fails
In vimc_init(), when platform_driver_register(&vimc_pdrv) fails, platform_driver_unregister(&vimc_pdrv) is wrongly called rather than platform_device_unregister(&vimc_pdev), which causes kernel warning:
Unexpected driver unregister! WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14517 at drivers/base/driver.c:270 driver_unregister+0x8f/0xb0 RIP: 0010:driver_unregister+0x8f/0xb0 Call Trace:
vimc_init+0x7d/0x1000 [vimc] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4e0 do_init_module+0x1cf/0x6b0 load_module+0x65c2/0x7820
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.13
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/14d85b600bb1f6f8ef61fa8fc1907e2e623d8350mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/681ac2902039d9b497b3ae18fdc204314979e61emitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c9ff35d68691aaea85b2e93763772e23930b3a3mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f38df8984ef1b45ba23888d0e232cc21a95bd04bmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f74d3f326d1d5b8951ce263c59a121ecfa65e7c0mitre
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