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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48975"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T20:05:55.091Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:50:46.796Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48975"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48975.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48975"
title: "gpiolib: fix memory leak in gpiochip_setup_dev()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpiolib: fix memory leak in gpiochip_setup_dev()\n\nHere is a backtrace report about memory leak detected in\ngpiochip_setup_dev():\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810b406400 (size 512):\n  comm \"python3\", pid 1682, jiffies 4295346908 (age 24.090s)\n  backtrace:\n    kmalloc_trace\n    device_add\t\tdevice_private_init at drivers/base/core.c:3361\n\t\t\t(inlined by) device_add at drivers/base/core.c:3411\n    cdev_device_add\n    gpiolib_cdev_register\n    gpiochip_setup_dev\n    gpiochip_add_data_with_key\n\ngcdev_register() & gcdev_unregister() would call device_add() &\ndevice_del() (no matter CONFIG_GPIO_CDEV is enabled or not) to\nregister/unregister device.\n\nHowever, if device_add() succeeds, some resource (like\nstruct device_private allocated by device_private_init())\nis not released by device_del().\n\nTherefore, after device_add() succeeds by gcdev_register(), it\nneeds to call put_device() to release resource in the error handle\npath.\n\nHere we move forward the register of release function, and let it\nrelease every piece of resource by put_device() instead of kfree().\n\nWhile at it, fix another subtle issue, i.e. when gc-\u003engpio is equal\nto 0, we still call kcalloc() and, in case of further error, kfree()\non the ZERO_PTR pointer, which is not NULL. It's not a bug per se,\nbut rather waste of the resources and potentially wrong expectation\nabout contents of the gdev-\u003edescs variable."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"159f3cd92f17c61a4e2a47456de5865b114ef88e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6daaa84b621485fe28c401be18debf92ae8ef04a"},{"version":"159f3cd92f17c61a4e2a47456de5865b114ef88e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"371363716398ed718e389bea8c5e9843a79dde4e"},{"version":"159f3cd92f17c61a4e2a47456de5865b114ef88e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec851b23084b3a0af8bf0f5e51d33a8d678bdc49"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.6"},{"version":"5.15.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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