In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: Fix device name leak when register device failed in addmtddevice() There is a kmemleak when register device failed: unreferenced object 0xffff888101aab550 (size 8): comm "insmod", pid 3922, jiffies 4295277753 (age 925.408s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 6d 74 64 30 00 88 ff ff mtd0.... backtrace: [<00000000bde26724>] _kmallocnodetrackcaller+0x4e/0x150 [<000000003c32b416>] kvasprintf+0xb0/0x130 [<000000001f7a8f15>] kobjectsetnamevargs+0x2f/0xb0 [<000000006e781163>] devsetname+0xab/0xe0 [<00000000e30d0c78>] addmtddevice+0x4bb/0x700 [<00000000f3d34de7>] mtddeviceparseregister+0x2ac/0x3f0 [<00000000c0d88488>] 0xffffffffa0238457 [<00000000b40d0922>] 0xffffffffa02a008f [<0000000023d17b9d>] dooneinitcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<00000000770f6ca6>] doinitmodule+0xdf/0x320 [<000000007b6768fe>] loadmodule+0x2f98/0x3330 [<00000000346bed5a>] _dosysfinitmodule+0x113/0x1b0 [<00000000674c2290>] dosyscall64+0x35/0x80 [<000000004c6a8d97>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x46/0xb0 If register device failed, should call putdevice() to give up the reference.