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    <id>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2022-50566</id>
    <title>CVE-2022-50566 — mtd: Fix device name leak when register device failed in add_mtd_device()</title>
    <updated>2026-10-02T16:00:49.021572+00:00</updated>
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      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p>
<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p>
<p>mtd: Fix device name leak when register device failed in add_mtd_device()</p>
<p>There is a kmemleak when register device failed:
  unreferenced object 0xffff888101aab550 (size 8):
    comm "insmod", pid 3922, jiffies 4295277753 (age 925.408s)
    hex dump (first 8 bytes):
      6d 74 64 30 00 88 ff ff                          mtd0....
    backtrace:
      [&lt;00000000bde26724&gt;] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4e/0x150
      [&lt;000000003c32b416&gt;] kvasprintf+0xb0/0x130
      [&lt;000000001f7a8f15&gt;] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x2f/0xb0
      [&lt;000000006e781163&gt;] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0
      [&lt;00000000e30d0c78&gt;] add_mtd_device+0x4bb/0x700
      [&lt;00000000f3d34de7&gt;] mtd_device_parse_register+0x2ac/0x3f0
      [&lt;00000000c0d88488&gt;] 0xffffffffa0238457
      [&lt;00000000b40d0922&gt;] 0xffffffffa02a008f
      [&lt;0000000023d17b9d&gt;] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0
      [&lt;00000000770f6ca6&gt;] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320
      [&lt;000000007b6768fe&gt;] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330
      [&lt;00000000346bed5a&gt;] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0
      [&lt;00000000674c2290&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
      [&lt;000000004c6a8d97&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0</p>
<p>If register device failed, should call put_device() to give up the
reference.</p></div>
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    <link href="https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2022-50566"/>
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