CVE-2022-50550

CVE-2022-50550 affects the Linux kernel’s blk-iolatency component. The flaw arises when a gendisk is initialized but add_disk() fails; iolatency is initialized during init but not cleaned up in error handling, causing a memory leak. The root cause is that cleanup previously relied on del_gendisk(...

PT-2025-41055

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A memory leak occurs when a gendisk is successfully initialized but add disk fails, such as when a loop device has an invalid number of minor device numbers specified. Specifically,...