CVE-2026-53121

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

amd-pstate: Fix memory leak in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init()

On failure to set the epp, the function amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() returns with an error code without freeing the cpudata object that was allocated at the beginning of the function.

Ensure that the cpudata object is freed before returning from the function.

This memory leak was discovered by Claude Opus 4.6 with the aid of Chris Masons AI review-prompts (https://github.com/masoncl/review-prompts/tree/main/kernel).

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/539aabbab190825c77eb455ec35652cb3720625f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f9aa2359742eaa6ea65ec0d20dafdfd0add9b8b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beda3b363546a423e4e29a7395e04c0ac4ff677e