CVE-2022-49016

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's mdiobus subsystem, causing unbalanced reference counts for firmware nodes fwnode, leading to memory leaks and potential instability. The issue occurred because fwnodemdiobusphydeviceregister incremented the reference count for non-ACPI nodes without...

CVE-2022-49016

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mdiobus: fix unbalanced node reference count I got the following report while doing devicemscc-miim load test with CONFIGOFUNITTEST and CONFIGOFDYNAMIC enabled: OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2,...

CVE-2022-49016

CVE-2022-49016 is a Linux kernel issue in the net:mdiobus subsystem. The vulnerability arises from an unbalanced reference count: non-ACPI paths call fwnode_handle_put() in phy_device_release(), while ACPI paths call fwnode_handle_get() before phy_device_register() to balance gets/puts; this prev...

CVE-2022-49016

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mdiobus: fix unbalanced node reference count I got the following report while doing devicemscc-miim load test with CONFIGOFUNITTEST and CONFIGOFDYNAMIC enabled: OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2,...