🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50545
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: r6040: Fix kmemleak in probe and remove There is a memory leaks reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff888116111000 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 817, jiffies 4294759745 (age 76.502s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 c4 0a 04 81 88 ff ff 08 10 11 16 81 88 ff ff ................ 08 10 11 16 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] kmalloc_trace+0x22/0x60 [] phy_device_create+0x4e/0x90 [] get_phy_device+0xd2/0x220 [] mdiobus_scan+0xa4/0x2e0 [] __mdiobus_register+0x482/0x8b0 [] r6040_init_one+0x714/0xd2c [r6040] ... The problem occurs in probe process as follows: r6040_init_one: mdiobus_register mdiobus_scan <- alloc and register phy_device, the reference count of phy_device is 3 r6040_mii_probe phy_connect <- connect to the first phy_device, so the reference count of the first phy_device is 4, others are 3 register_netdev mii_bus); err_out_mdio: mdiobus_free(lp->mii_bus); <- the reference count of the first phy_device is 1, it is not released and other phy_devices are released // similarly, the remove process also has the same problem The root cause is traced to the phy_device is not disconnected when removes one r6040 device in r6040_remove_one() or on error handling path after r6040_mii probed successfully. In r6040_mii_probe(), a net ethernet device is connected to the first PHY device of mii_bus, in order to notify the connected driver when the link status changes, which is the default behavior of the PHY infrastructure to handle everything. Therefore the phy_device should be disconnected when removes one r6040 device or on error handling path. Fix it by adding phy_disconnect() when removes one r6040 device or on error handling path after r6040_mii probed successfully.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-10-07
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-06-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux 5.15.0-69.76
linux-allwinner-5.19
linux-aws 5.15.0-1033.37
linux-aws-5.0
linux-aws-5.11
linux-aws-5.13
linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1033.37~20.04.1
linux-aws-5.19
linux-aws-5.3
linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1097.105~18.04.1
linux-aws-5.8
linux-aws-6.2
linux-aws-6.5
linux-aws-fips
linux-aws-hwe 4.15.0-1153.166~16.04.1
linux-azure 5.15.0-1035.42
linux-azure-4.15 4.15.0-1162.177
linux-azure-5.11
linux-azure-5.13
linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1035.42~20.04.1
linux-azure-5.19
linux-azure-5.3
linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1104.110~18.04.1
linux-azure-5.8
linux-azure-6.11
linux-azure-6.2
linux-azure-6.5
linux-azure-edge
linux-azure-fde
linux-azure-fde-5.19
linux-azure-fde-6.2
linux-azure-fips
linux-bluefield
linux-fips
linux-gcp 5.15.0-1031.38
linux-gcp-4.15 4.15.0-1147.163
linux-gcp-5.11
linux-gcp-5.13
linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1031.38~20.04.1
linux-gcp-5.19
linux-gcp-5.3
linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1101.110~18.04.1
linux-gcp-5.8
linux-gcp-6.11
linux-gcp-6.2
linux-gcp-6.5
linux-gcp-fips
linux-gke 5.15.0-1030.35
linux-gke-4.15
linux-gke-5.15
linux-gke-5.4
linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1017.22
linux-gkeop-5.15
linux-gkeop-5.4
linux-hwe
linux-hwe-5.11
linux-hwe-5.13
linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-69.76~20.04.1
linux-hwe-5.19
linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-144.161~18.04.1
linux-hwe-5.8
linux-hwe-6.11
linux-hwe-6.2
linux-hwe-6.5
linux-hwe-edge
linux-ibm 5.15.0-1027.30
linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1045.50~18.04.1
linux-intel
linux-intel-5.13
linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1023.28
linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1027.32
linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1027.32~20.04.1
linux-iot 5.4.0-1013.15
linux-kvm 5.15.0-1030.35
linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-69.76
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-69.76~20.04.1
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
linux-lts-xenial
linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1023.23
linux-nvidia-6.2
linux-nvidia-6.5
linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1014.14~20.04.1
linux-oem
linux-oem-5.10
linux-oem-5.13
linux-oem-5.14
linux-oem-5.17
linux-oem-5.6
linux-oem-6.0
linux-oem-6.1
linux-oem-6.11
linux-oem-6.5
linux-oem-6.8
linux-oracle 5.15.0-1032.38
linux-oracle-5.0
linux-oracle-5.11
linux-oracle-5.13
linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1032.38~20.04.1
linux-oracle-5.3
linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1094.103~18.04.1
linux-oracle-5.8
linux-oracle-6.5
linux-raspi 5.15.0-1026.28
linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1081.92~18.04.1
linux-raspi-realtime
linux-raspi2
linux-realtime
linux-riscv
linux-riscv-5.11
linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1030.34~20.04.1
linux-riscv-5.19
linux-riscv-5.8
linux-riscv-6.5
linux-starfive-5.19
linux-starfive-6.2
linux-starfive-6.5
linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.4.0-1022.26

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