CVE-2022-49422

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux42d279f9137ab7d5503836baec2739284b278d8f < 6073af78156b8c3fc1198f8bcc190b7ac3ac0143affected
LinuxLinux42d279f9137ab7d5503836baec2739284b278d8f < b3c7b5d08e9d5b2ff31c03078c00ecf11042419faffected
LinuxLinux42d279f9137ab7d5503836baec2739284b278d8f < 5e88561eceb34ae3f88451c2b8e30fe403484189affected
LinuxLinux42d279f9137ab7d5503836baec2739284b278d8f < c308a2e711a52a47f4b45e7add2b5200169e429aaffected
LinuxLinux42d279f9137ab7d5503836baec2739284b278d8f < aab08c1aac01097815fbcf10fce7021d2396a31faffected
LinuxLinux5.6affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.6unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.121 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.46 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.17.14 <= 5.17.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.18.3 <= 5.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.19 <= *unaffected

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