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CVE-2022-50469

staging: rtl8723bs: fix potential memory leak in rtw_init_drv_sw()

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix potential memory leak in rtw_init_drv_sw() In rtw_init_drv_sw(), there are various init functions are called to populate the padapter structure and some checks for their return value. However, except for the first one error path, the other five error paths do not properly release the previous allocated resources, which leads to various memory leaks. This patch fixes them and keeps the success and error separate. Note that these changes keep the form of `rtw_init_drv_sw()` in "drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/os_intfs.c". As there is no proper device to test with, no runtime testing was performed.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to < b4573a2bad3c3e2643ef3939079eb7035a30e6eeaffected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to < 6b2052b365f8035ab7f09ac24b5b499002b298cbaffected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to < d95d1526d9f06978c1a7186810a5490d72c62742affected
  • 554c0a3abf216c991c5ebddcdb2c08689ecd290b to < 5a5aa9cce621e2c0e25a1e5d72d6be1749167cc0affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 4.12affected
  • 0 to < 4.12unaffected
  • 5.15.75 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 5.19.17 to ≤ 5.19.*unaffected
  • 6.0.3 to ≤ 6.0.*unaffected
  • 6.1 to ≤ *unaffected

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