CVE-2022-49016

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49016
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49016.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49016
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
SUSE (5)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2024-10-21T20:06:25Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:31Z
Summary
net: mdiobus: fix unbalanced node reference count
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: mdiobus: fix unbalanced node reference count

I got the following report while doing device(mscc-miim) load test with CONFIG_OF_UNITTEST and CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC enabled:

OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2, of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry: attach overlay node /spi/soc@0/mdio@7107009c/ethernet-phy@0

If the 'fwnode' is not an acpi node, the refcount is get in fwnode_mdiobus_phy_device_register(), but it has never been put when the device is freed in the normal path. So call fwnode_handle_put() in phy_device_release() to avoid leak.

If it's an acpi node, it has never been get, but it's put in the error path, so call fwnode_handle_get() before phy_device_register() to keep get/put operation balanced.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49016.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
bc1bee3b87ee48bd97ef7fd306445132ba2041b0
Fixed
543d917f691ab06885ee779c862065899eaa4251
Fixed
2708b357440427d6a9fee667eb7b8307f4625adc
Fixed
cdde1560118f82498fc9e9a7c1ef7f0ef7755891

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49016.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.14.0
Fixed
5.15.82
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.0.12

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49016.json"