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CVE-2022-49422

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Fix the error handling path in idxd_cdev_register() If a call to alloc_chr…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Fix the error handling path in idxd_cdev_register() If a call to alloc_chrdev_region() fails, the already allocated resources are leaking. Add the needed error handling path to fix the leak.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 5.6 before 5.10.121
from 5.11 before 5.15.46
from 5.16 before 5.17.14
from 5.18 before 5.18.3

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