In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers
Currently, if an automatically freed allocation is an error pointer that
will lead to a crash.  An example of this is in wm831x_gpio_dbg_show().
   171	char *label __free(kfree) = gpiochip_dup_line_label(chip, i);
   172	if (IS_ERR(label)) {
   173		dev_err(wm831x->dev, "Failed to duplicate label\n");
   174		continue;
   175  }
The auto clean up function should check for error pointers as well,
otherwise we're going to keep hitting issues like this.
                
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* | 
 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-05-30T15:28:57.373Z
Updated: 2025-10-29T13:18:54.362Z
Reserved: 2024-05-30T15:25:07.065Z
Link: CVE-2024-36890
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
                    Updated: 2024-08-02T03:43:49.148Z
 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2024-05-30T16:15:12.493
Modified: 2025-10-29T14:15:50.067
Link: CVE-2024-36890
 Redhat
                        Redhat