CVE-2022-50724

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50724
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50724.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50724
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-12-24T12:22:46.251Z
Modified
2026-03-12T03:26:50.395208Z
Summary
regulator: core: fix resource leak in regulator_register()
Details

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

regulator: core: fix resource leak in regulator_register()

I got some resource leak reports while doing fault injection test:

OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 100, ofnodeget()/ofnodeput() unbalanced - destroy cset entry: attach overlay node /i2c/pmic@64/regulators/buck1

unreferenced object 0xffff88810deea000 (size 512): comm "490-i2c-rt5190a", pid 253, jiffies 4294859840 (age 5061.046s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff a0 1e 00 a1 ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: [<00000000d78541e2>] kmalloctrace+0x21/0x110 [<00000000b343d153>] deviceprivateinit+0x32/0xd0 [<00000000be1f0c70>] deviceadd+0xb2d/0x1030 [<00000000e3e6344d>] regulatorregister+0xaf2/0x12a0 [<00000000e2f5e754>] devmregulatorregister+0x57/0xb0 [<000000008b898197>] rt5190aprobe+0x52a/0x861 [rt5190a_regulator]

unreferenced object 0xffff88810b617b80 (size 32): comm "490-i2c-rt5190a", pid 253, jiffies 4294859904 (age 5060.983s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 72 65 67 75 6c 61 74 6f 72 2e 32 38 36 38 2d 53 regulator.2868-S 55 50 50 4c 59 00 ff ff 29 00 00 00 2b 00 00 00 UPPLY...)...+... backtrace: [<000000009da9280d>] _kmallocnodetrackcaller+0x44/0x1b0 [<0000000025c6a4e5>] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70 [<00000000790efb69>] createregulator+0xc0/0x4e0 [<0000000005ed203a>] regulatorresolvesupply+0x2d4/0x440 [<0000000045796214>] regulatorregister+0x10b3/0x12a0 [<00000000e2f5e754>] devmregulatorregister+0x57/0xb0 [<000000008b898197>] rt5190aprobe+0x52a/0x861 [rt5190aregulator]

After calling regulatorresolvesupply(), the 'rdev->supply' is set by setsupply(), after this set, in the error path, the resources need be released, so call regulatorput() to avoid the leaks.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50724.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
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
0120ec32a7774b5061ced1a9a7ff833edd8b4cb6
Fixed
35593d60b1622834984c43add7646d4069671aa9
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
aea6cb99703e17019e025aa71643b4d3e0a24413
Fixed
6a03c31d08f95dca9633a552de167b9e625833a8
Fixed
c4c64d8abd656b9807b63178750fa91454602b86
Fixed
90b713aadc1240bf2dd03d610d6c1d016a9123a2
Fixed
f86b2f216636790d5922458578825e4628fb570f
Fixed
ba62319a42c50e6254e98b3f316464fac8e77968
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
1d58235c062309d51660fd04182d7a8ab6a48ad6
Last affected
167c3b1f9793a1fb23e75e693f078420850306d4
Last affected
3fc99e38fdbf6b693693f861aa55a50a74c2d202
Last affected
96c6b5d5775637b3095ef934f871044811fd4db7
Last affected
f58ce31b05b4ca0c200a5cbe4724efe279405095

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50724.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.4.229
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.163
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.10.0
Fixed
5.15.86
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
6.0.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50724.json"