In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: phy: mdio: fix memory leak Syzbot reported memory leak in MDIO bus interface, the problem was in wrong state logic. MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED indicates 2 states: 1. Bus is only allocated 2. Bus allocated and __mdiobus_register() fails, but device_register() was called In case of device_register() has been called we should call put_device() to correctly free the memory allocated for this device, but mdiobus_free() calls just kfree(dev) in case of MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED state To avoid this behaviour we need to set bus->state to MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED _before_ calling device_register(), because put_device() should be called even in case of device_register() failure.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2024-05-21T15:04:06.042Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T05:39:59.091Z

Reserved: 2024-05-21T14:58:30.818Z

Link: CVE-2021-47416

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T05:39:59.091Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-21T15:15:27.083

Modified: 2024-05-21T16:53:56.550

Link: CVE-2021-47416

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-05-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-47416 - Bugzilla