CVE-2022-49836

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: siox: fix possible memory leak in siox_device_add() If device_register() returns error in siox_device_add(), the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and sdevice is freed in siox_device_release(), set it to null in error path.

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-49836 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2022-49836.

URL	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a5da069603ecc3d7aa09167450235462adaa295
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d03c2911c529ea4d6ebfec53425f1091e8d402b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e63153db50059fb78b8a8447b132664887d24e3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4b5423f88a17a36550ae8c16c46779b1ee42f4b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9c31e728843259209fb530c59995e4fe262699f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9fe7ba4ea5b24ffdf8e125f660aca3ba4a147fb
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050138-CVE-2022-49836-510d@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49836
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49836