GHSA-h4gm-c37q-gjjrMediumCVSS 5.5
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path
In the error path of hws_pool_buddy_init(), the buddy allocator cleanup doesn't free the allocator structure itself, causing a memory leak.
Add the missing kfree() to properly release all allocated memory.
🔗 References (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39830
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c0a959bebdc1ada13cf9a8242f177c5400299e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86d13a6f49cb68aa91bd718b1b627e72e77285c1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ccdbf50dd88a2a7399409e68887dd8077f6a562
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h4gm-c37q-gjjr