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Affected: Linux

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

USB: gadget: Fix the memory leak in raw_gadget driver

Currently, increasing raw_dev->count happens before invoke the raw_queue_event(), if the raw_queue_event() return error, invoke raw_release() will not trigger the dev_free() to be called.

[ 268.905865][ T5067] raw-gadget.0 gadget.0: failed to queue event [ 268.912053][ T5067] udc dummy_udc.0: failed to start USB Raw Gadget: -12 [ 268.918885][ T5067] raw-gadget.0: probe of gadget.0 failed with error -12 [ 268.925956][ T5067] UDC core: USB Raw Gadget: couldn't find an available UDC or it's busy [ 268.934657][ T5067] misc raw-gadget: fail, usb_gadget_register_driver returned -16

BUG: memory leak

[<ffffffff8154bf94>] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076 [<ffffffff8347eb55>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline] [<ffffffff8347eb55>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:703 [inline] [<ffffffff8347eb55>] dev_new drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:191 [inline] [<ffffffff8347eb55>] raw_open+0x45/0x110 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:385 [<ffffffff827d1d09>] misc_open+0x1a9/0x1f0 drivers/char/misc.c:165

[<ffffffff8154bf94>] kmalloc_trace+0x24/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1076 [<ffffffff8347cd2f>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:582 [inline] [<ffffffff8347cd2f>] raw_ioctl_init+0xdf/0x410 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:460 [<ffffffff8347dfe9>] raw_ioctl+0x5f9/0x1120 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/raw_gadget.c:1250 [<ffffffff81685173>] vfs_ioctl fs…