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

ieee802154: ca8210: fix cas_ctl leak on spi_async failure

ca8210_spi_transfer() allocates cas_ctl with kzalloc_obj(GFP_ATOMIC)
and relies entirely on the SPI completion callback
ca8210_spi_transfer_complete() to free it.

The spi_async() API only invokes the completion callback on successful
submission.  On failure it returns a negative error code without ever
queuing the callback, which leaves cas_ctl and its embedded spi_message
and spi_transfer orphaned.  Every kfree(cas_ctl) in the driver is
inside the completion callback, so there is no other reclamation path.

ca8210_spi_transfer() is called from ca8210_spi_exchange(), the
interrupt handler ca8210_interrupt_handler(), and from the retry path
inside the completion callback itself.  The exchange and interrupt
handler paths loop on -EBUSY, so under sustained SPI bus contention
every retry iteration leaks a fresh cas_ctl (~600 bytes per
occurrence).

Fix it by freeing cas_ctl on the spi_async() error path.  While here,
correct the misleading error string: the function calls spi_async(),
not spi_sync().

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/460c5cd51e4d7d15b317f178f42cfcb666c0fe91

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e3630fbb6aabb844bbf35746dee0bf3894100c7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b07aea90dbc6e188c74c100af64b77b9482ffc65

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9071dc7889bef42590e04fbf3e56cc65e1e5e6e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb5cca1d2a908ddd5e357971de0f2009617b8d6a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4a397fe803c2d157f6ebb068b802ef75fbf109e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e09390e439bd7cca30dd10893b1f64802961667a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe90605b651573d30be8293ff5be40e3d7023117

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