CVE-2025-39830 (GCVE-0-2025-39830)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-16 13:08
Modified
2025-09-16 13:08
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c0a959bebdc1ada13cf9a8242f177c5400299e6
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86d13a6f49cb68aa91bd718b1b627e72e77285c1
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Linux Linux Version: c61afff94373641695cc81999e9bb10408ea84d5
Version: c61afff94373641695cc81999e9bb10408ea84d5
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   Linux Linux Version: 6.12
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