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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 9, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025

PCI: Fix reference leak in pci_register_host_bridge()

CVE-2025-37836

Description

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

PCI: Fix reference leak in pci_register_host_bridge()

If device_register() fails, call put_device() to give up the reference to avoid a memory leak, per the comment at device_register().

Found by code review.

[bhelgaas: squash Dan Carpenter's double free fix from https://lore.kernel.org/r/db806a6c-a91b-4e5a-a84b-6b7e01bdac85@stanley.mountain]

Affected products

87

Patches

0

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