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

staging: rtl8712: fix a potential memory leak in r871xu_drv_init()

In r871xu_drv_init(), if r8712_init_drv_sw() fails, then the memory
allocated by r8712_alloc_io_queue() in r8712_usb_dvobj_init() is not
properly released as there is no action will be performed by
r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit().
To properly release it, we should call r8712_free_io_queue() in
r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit().

Besides, in r871xu_dev_remove(), r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit() will be called
by r871x_dev_unload() under condition padapter->bup and
r8712_free_io_queue() is called by r8712_free_drv_sw().
However, r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit() does not rely on padapter->bup and
calling r8712_free_io_queue() in r8712_free_drv_sw() is negative for
better understading the code.
So I move r8712_usb_dvobj_deinit() into r871xu_dev_remove(), and remove
r8712_free_io_queue() from r8712_free_drv_sw().

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49312
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/205e039fead72e87ad2838f5e649a4c4834f648b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a89a92efc342dd7c44b6056da87debc598f9c73
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7288ff561de650d4139fab80e9cb0da9b5b32434
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8eb42d6d10f8fe509117859defddf9e72b4fa4d0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2882b8baad068d21c99fb2ab5a85a2bdbd5b834