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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026

misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media()

CVE-2022-50349

Description

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

misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media()

If device_register() returns error in tifm_7xx1_switch_media(), name of kobject which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked.

Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized.

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