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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2025· Updated Jan 14, 2026

net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path

CVE-2025-39830

Description

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

net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path

In the error path of hws_pool_buddy_init(), the buddy allocator cleanup doesn't free the allocator structure itself, causing a memory leak.

Add the missing kfree() to properly release all allocated memory.

Affected products

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Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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