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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2025· Updated Dec 23, 2025

ext4: fix potential memory leak in ext4_fc_record_regions()

CVE-2022-50512

Description

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

ext4: fix potential memory leak in ext4_fc_record_regions()

As krealloc may return NULL, in this case 'state->fc_regions' may not be freed by krealloc, but 'state->fc_regions' already set NULL. Then will lead to 'state->fc_regions' memory leak.

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