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CVE-2024-40997 is a memory leak in the Linux kernel cpufreq amd-pstate driver's Energy Performance Preference (EPP) path. Memory for CPU-specific cpudata is allocated with kzalloc() during amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init(), but was not released by the corresponding CPU EPP exit handler. Consequently, allocations can remain unreclaimed after CPU EPP teardown.
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Linux kernel AMD P-State CPU energy-performance-preference exit memory leak.
A low-severity Linux kernel memory-leak flaw in the AMD P-State CPU frequency-scaling driver. Memory allocated for CPU EPP initialization was not released during the corresponding exit path.
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