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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 7, 2024· Updated Oct 1, 2025

fsl/fman: Fix refcount handling of fman-related devices

CVE-2024-50166

Description

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

fsl/fman: Fix refcount handling of fman-related devices

In mac_probe() there are multiple calls to of_find_device_by_node(), fman_bind() and fman_port_bind() which takes references to of_dev->dev. Not all references taken by these calls are released later on error path in mac_probe() and in mac_remove() which lead to reference leaks.

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