CVE-2026-97946

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

x86/amd_node: Fix PCI device reference counting in amd_smn_init()

The local "root" pointer is a temporary variable used during the device

search. Therefore, refcount related to the search iterators should be cleaned

up after the search is complete.

Use the __free() cleanup macro to ensure the refcount is decremented when the

temporary pointer goes out of scope.

Additionally, increment the refcount when caching a root pointer. This ensures

the in-use refcount is separate from the temporary search refcounting.

Finally, drop the redundant "root = NULL" before the second search loop. The

pci_get_class() iterator always decrements the refcount of its "from"

argument, so the first loop can only fall through with "root" already NULL.