CVE-2026-80974

mfd: sm501: Fix potential memory leaks during remove

N/A
Published: September 11, 2026 at 07:42 PM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mfd: sm501: Fix potential memory leaks during remove The memory allocated for struct sm501_devdata in sm501_pci_probe() and sm501_plat_probe() is not freed by the corresponding remove functions sm501_pci_remove() and sm501_plat_remove(). Fix that by adding a call to kfree().

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.6.21b6d6454fdb66f3829af8b92ab06825b6060fdf7e
Vendor states this is fixed in 83feedd9d83c0c5199f98c72df0a6196b4aefb4d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 94ca4f040ba489db2d4b66e9d1ee91b4f9a00534 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c8be3a076a59ec793fb2e4bdb830a709aaea9cce (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fcc6c3b11d73459e0d55b27c98cc56d59fef4d82 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.21 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.109 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.50 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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