CVE-2022-49462 drm/msm/a6xx: Fix refcount leak in a6xx_gpu_init

What is CVE-2022-49462?

CVE-2022-49462 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

drm/msm/a6xx: Fix refcount leak in a6xx_gpu_init

of_parse_phandle() returns a node pointer with refcount incremented, we should use of_node_put() on it when not need anymore.

a6xx_gmu_init() passes the node to of_find_device_by_node() and of_dma_configure(), of_find_device_by_node() will takes its reference, of_dma_configure() doesn't need the node after usage.

Add missing of_node_put() to avoid refcount leak.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49462?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49462?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-49462 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49462 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49462, GHSA-v3p2-rq9p-452w, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49462.