Re: CVE-2022-49816: xen/pcpu: fix possible memory leak in register_pcpu()

[Greg KH]

On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 08:19:47PM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 01.05.25 16:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Description
> > ===========
> > 
> > In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> > 
> > xen/pcpu: fix possible memory leak in register_pcpu()
> > 
> > In device_add(), dev_set_name() is called to allocate name, if it returns
> > error, the 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().
> > 
> > The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49816 to this issue.
> 
> Please revoke this CVE.
> 
> The issue can in no way be triggered by an unprivileged user.
> 
> The memory leak could happen only either during boot of dom0, or when
> hotplugging a physical CPU to a Xen server.

Now rejected, thanks.

greg k-h