Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 88% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix memory leak in vmbus_add_channel_kobj
kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
According to the doc of kobject_init_and_add()：
If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
Fix memory leak by calling kobject_put().
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/417947891bd5ae327f15efed1a0da2b12ef24962https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bc69f86328e87a0ffa79438430cc82f3aa6a194https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91d8866ca55232d21995a3d54fac96de33c9e20chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92e25b637cd4e010f776c86e4810300e773eac5chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c377e2ba78d3fe9a1f0b4ec424e75f81da7e81e9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe595759c2a4a5bb41c438474f15947d8ae32f5c