CVE-2026-72245: gpu: host1x: Fix device reference leak in host1x_device_parse_dt() error path

Published Aug 15, 2026
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Updated

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

gpu: host1x: Fix device reference leak in host1xdeviceparsedt() error path

After deviceinitialize(), the embedded struct device in struct host1xdevice should be released through the device core with putdevice().

In host1xdeviceadd(), if host1xdeviceparsedt() fails, the current error path frees the object directly with kfree(device). That bypasses the normal device lifetime handling and leaks the reference held on the embedded struct device.

The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and confirmed by manual review.

Fix this by using putdevice() in the host1xdeviceparsedt() failure path.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Event History

Aug 15, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:54 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:54 AM
Description
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