CVE-2022-50304

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50304
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50304.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50304
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-09-15T14:45:59Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:39Z
Summary
mtd: core: fix possible resource leak in init_mtd()
Details

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

mtd: core: fix possible resource leak in init_mtd()

I got the error report while inject fault in init_mtd():

sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/mtd-0' Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x67/0x83 sysfs_warn_dup+0x60/0x70 sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x109/0x120 kobject_add_internal+0xce/0x2f0 kobject_add+0x98/0x110 device_add+0x179/0xc00 device_create_groups_vargs+0xf4/0x100 device_create+0x7b/0xb0 bdi_register_va.part.13+0x58/0x2d0 bdi_register+0x9b/0xb0 init_mtd+0x62/0x171 [mtd] do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x3c0 do_init_module+0x58/0x222 load_module+0x268e/0x27d0 __do_sys_finit_module+0xd5/0x140 do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd kobject_add_internal failed for mtd-0 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. Error registering mtd class or bdi: -17

If init_mtdchar() fails in init_mtd(), mtd_bdi will not be unregistered, as a result, we can't load the mtd module again, to fix this by calling bdi_unregister(mtd_bdi) after out_procfs label.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50304.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
445caaa20c4d6da74f426464f90513b81157ad77
Fixed
78816504100cbd8e6836df9f58cc4fbb8b262f1c
Fixed
26c304a3f136009c5a2a04e2bf3ac6aa25aabcb4
Fixed
1aadf01e5076b9ab6bf294b9622335c651314895

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50304.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.10.0
Fixed
6.0.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.1.0
Fixed
6.1.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50304.json"