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spinand driver

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The spinand driver tag covers discussions about the Linux kernel's MTD spinand driver, which manages SPI-NAND flash memory. Content includes a thread on CVE-2025-38384, a memory leak in the spinand driver where ECC engine configuration memory was not freed during cleanup, causing persistent kmemleak traces and availability risks. The fix addresses this robustness defect, relevant for systems using SPI-NAND flash or running long-lived workloads. The tag focuses on kernel driver issues, memory management, and security patches for the spinand driver.
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    CVE-2025-38384: Linux Spinand Driver Memory Leak Fix and Azure Linux Attestations

    The Linux kernel patch for CVE-2025-38384 fixes a small but real memory-leak in the MTD spinand driver: configuration memory allocated for the ECC engine was not freed during spinand cleanup, producing persistent kmemleak traces and a repeated, host-level availability risk until the driver was...
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    • azure linux attestation kmemleak linux kernel spinand driver
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