CVE-2022-49896 (GCVE-0-2022-49896)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:10 – Updated: 2025-10-01 16:01
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/pmem: Fix cxl_pmem_region and cxl_memdev leak When a cxl_nvdimm object goes through a ->remove() event (device physically removed, nvdimm-bridge disabled, or nvdimm device disabled), then any associated regions must also be disabled. As highlighted by the cxl-create-region.sh test [1], a single device may host multiple regions, but the driver was only tracking one region at a time. This leads to a situation where only the last enabled region per nvdimm device is cleaned up properly. Other regions are leaked, and this also causes cxl_memdev reference leaks. Fix the tracking by allowing cxl_nvdimm objects to track multiple region associations.
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5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: 04ad63f086d1a9649b8b082748cbc7a570ade461 , < f43b6bfdbab78606735ba81185cf0602b81e40b6 (git)
Affected: 04ad63f086d1a9649b8b082748cbc7a570ade461 , < 4d07ae22e79ebc2d7528bbc69daa53b86981cb3a (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.8 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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