Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 9, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2022-50659
CVE-2022-50659
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwrng: geode - Fix PCI device refcount leak
for_each_pci_dev() is implemented by pci_get_device(). The comment of pci_get_device() says that it will increase the reference count for the returned pci_dev and also decrease the reference count for the input pci_dev @from if it is not NULL.
If we break for_each_pci_dev() loop with pdev not NULL, we need to call pci_dev_put() to decrease the reference count. We add a new struct 'amd_geode_priv' to record pointer of the pci_dev and membase, and then add missing pci_dev_put() for the normal and error path.
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References
9- git.kernel.org/stable/c/19b7b85773b18457ff85a9ff4f5e2a2d4bf7ed0cnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cc818ad53df650cac8fb41d9066665366af3f03nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b9e43c4098f1310f5b4d52121d007a219fa5d43nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/82bd423ed977847652b2048b0f8dcf049b1847a9nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/874f798c2db5ad595e46982d7f727a679dacb048nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/88f4ea623f59155280d99d1a59a968f838472c4anvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f6ec8dc574efb7f4f3d7ee9cd59ae307e78f445nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa96aff394a511cc7bb7df08d1b8504d4d97671envd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2f44baf62567c5cfbc274974c7d96dddad53cccnvd
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