CVE-2022-50653

About vulnerability

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

mmc: atmel-mci: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()

mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value, it will lead two issues:

1. The memory that allocated in mmc_alloc_host() is leaked.
2. In the remove() path, mmc_remove_host() will be called to delete device, but it’s not added yet, it will lead a kernel crash because of null-ptr-deref in device_del().

So fix this by checking the return value and calling mmc_free_host() in the error path.

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU

Affected packages:

kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

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

mmc: atmel-mci: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()

mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value, it will lead two issues:

1. The memory that allocated in mmc_alloc_host() is leaked.
2. In the remove() path, mmc_remove_host() will be called to delete device, but it’s not added yet, it will lead a kernel crash because of null-ptr-deref in device_del().

So fix this by checking the return value and calling mmc_free_host() in the error path.