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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

nvme: apple: fix device reference counting

CVE-2024-43913

Description

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

nvme: apple: fix device reference counting

Drivers must call nvme_uninit_ctrl after a successful nvme_init_ctrl. Split the allocation side out to make the error handling boundary easier to navigate. The apple driver had been doing this wrong, leaking the controller device memory on a tagset failure.

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