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CVE-2022-49716

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/gic-v3: Fix error handling in gic_populate_ppi_partitions of_get_child_by_name() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore. When kcalloc fails, it missing of_node_put() and results in refcount leak. Fix this by goto out_put_node label.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.49
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.18.6
linux linux_kernel · 5.4 → 5.4.200
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.124

Analysis

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