In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hns: fix possible memory leak in hnaeaeregister()
Inject fault while probing module, if deviceregister() fails, but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name allocated in devsetname() is leaked. Fix this by calling putdevice(), so that name can be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup().
unreferenced object 0xffff00c01aba2100 (size 128): comm "systemd-udevd", pid 1259, jiffies 4294903284 (age 294.152s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 68 6e 61 65 30 00 00 00 18 21 ba 1a c0 00 ff ff hnae0....!...... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<0000000034783f26>] slabpostallochook+0xa0/0x3e0 [<00000000748188f2>] _kmemcacheallocnode+0x164/0x2b0 [<00000000ab0743e8>] _kmallocnodetrackcaller+0x6c/0x390 [<000000006c0ffb13>] kvasprintf+0x8c/0x118 [<00000000fa27bfe1>] kvasprintfconst+0x60/0xc8 [<0000000083e10ed7>] kobjectsetnamevargs+0x3c/0xc0 [<000000000b87affc>] devsetname+0x7c/0xa0 [<000000003fd8fe26>] hnaeaeregister+0xcc/0x190 [hnae] [<00000000fe97edc9>] hnsdsafaeinit+0x9c/0x108 [hnsdsaf] [<00000000c36ff1eb>] hnsdsafprobe+0x548/0x748 [hnsdsaf]