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test_firmware: fix memory leak in test_firmware_init()

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: test_firmware: fix memory leak in test_firmware_init() When misc_register() failed in test_firmware_init(), the memory pointed by test_fw_config->name is not released. The memory leak information is as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff88810a34cb00 (size 32): comm "insmod", pid 7952, jiffies 4294948236 (age 49.060s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 74 65 73 74 2d 66 69 72 6d 77 61 72 65 2e 62 69 test-firmware.bi 6e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 n............... backtrace: [] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4b/0xc0 [] kstrndup+0x46/0xc0 [] __test_firmware_config_init+0x29/0x380 [test_firmware] [] 0xffffffffa040f068 [] do_one_initcall+0x141/0x780 [] do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630 [] load_module+0x623e/0x76a0 [] __do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240 [] do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.10.163, 5.15.86, 5.4.229, 6.0.16, 6.1.2
CVEs
CVE-2022-50529
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
4 Nov 2026, 11:53 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

test_firmware: fix memory leak in test_firmware_init()

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Oct 2025, 15:19 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: test_firmware: fix memory leak in test_firmware_init() When misc_register() failed in test_firmware_init(), the memory pointed by test_fw_config->name is not released. The memory leak information is as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff88810a34cb00 (size 32): comm "insmod", pid 7952, jiffies 4294948236 (age 49.060s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 74 65 73 74 2d 66 69 72 6d 77 61 72 65 2e 62 69 test-firmware.bi 6e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 n............... backtrace: [] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4b/0xc0 [] kstrndup+0x46/0xc0 [] __test_firmware_config_init+0x29/0x380 [test_firmware] [] 0xffffffffa040f068 [] do_one_initcall+0x141/0x780 [] do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630 [] load_module+0x623e/0x76a0 [] __do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240 [] do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

osv:CVE-2022-50529

Kernel

Fixed versions: 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 5.4.229, 5.10.163, 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2

Complete source record
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