Vulnerability CVE-2024-40997
Published: 2024-07-12

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

cpufreq: amd-pstate: fix memory leak on CPU EPP exit

The cpudata memory from kzalloc() in amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init() is
not freed in the analogous exit function, so fix that.

[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/448efb7ea0bfa2c4e27c5a2eb5684fd225cd12cd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8015c17fe11a8608cc3eb83d0ab831e1845a9582
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cea04f3d9aeebda9d9c063c0dfa71e739c322c81
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