CVE-2026-72224

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvdimm/btt: Free arenas on btt_init() error paths The arenas allocated by discover_arenas() or create_arenas() are not freed on some error paths in btt_init(). This leaks memory when BTT initialization fails. Call free_arenas() from the affected error paths to release the allocations. [ as: commit message and log edits ]

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b63788093ff6ccfffe6e87de9e08aeeb406599c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a6b6442a982d0ca5fb6a1a39b6f6dfd760eda57
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52a7e7ece79c4b0f406149e19cd2b4b11a6c19e4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5804e6a6912b5a1e47c821777d69191d69a3fe64
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68c967e105d50f885e02b0dbdc9211fd5f84bdcd