CVE-2022-49437 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/xive: Fix refcount leak in xive_spapr_init

of_find_compatible_node() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented we should use of_node_put() on it when done. Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d1fb9618bdd5a5fbf9a9eb75133da301d33721c https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/65f11ccdd746e0e7f0b469cc989ba43d4f30ecfe https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e806485d851986a2445267608f27cb4ba2ed774 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc62dde2a5f4ba14016fd9caec76f08d388f4b9c