CVE-2022-50434
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: fix possible memleak when register 'hctx' failed There's issue as follows when do fault injection test: unreferenced object 0xffff888132a9f400 (size 512): comm "insmod", pid…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: fix possible memleak when register 'hctx' failed There's issue as follows when do fault injection test: unreferenced object 0xffff888132a9f400 (size 512): comm "insmod", pid 308021, jiffies 4324277909 (age 509.733s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 f4 a9 32 81 88 ff ff ...........2.... 08 f4 a9 32 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...2............ backtrace: [<00000000e8952bb4>] kmalloc_node_trace+0x22/0xa0 [<00000000f9980e0f>] blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx+0x3f1/0x7e0 [<000000002e719efa>] blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs+0x1e6/0x230 [<000000004f1fda40>] blk_mq_init_allocated_queue+0x27e/0x910 [<00000000287123ec>] __blk_mq_alloc_disk+0x67/0xf0 [<00000000a2a34657>] 0xffffffffa2ad310f [<00000000b173f718>] 0xffffffffa2af824a [<0000000095a1dabb>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<00000000f32fdf93>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320 [<00000000cbe8541e>] load_module+0x3006/0x3390 [<0000000069ed1bdb>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0 [<00000000a1a29ae8>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<000000009cd878b0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 Fault injection context as follows: kobject_add blk_mq_register_hctx blk_mq_sysfs_register blk_register_queue device_add_disk null_add_dev.part.0 [null_blk] As 'blk_mq_register_hctx' may already add some objects when failed halfway, but there isn't do fallback, caller don't know which objects add failed. To solve above issue just do fallback when add objects failed halfway in 'blk_mq_register_hctx'.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.18% probability · 8th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-401
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02bc8bc6eab03c84373281b85cb6e98747172ff7Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33e8a3f61814ea30615d0fafaf50477975d6c1caPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b7a21c57b14fbcd0e1729150189e5933f5088e9Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b7fafa5f39b15c3a6ca3b95e534d05d6904cc95Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/654870789c3c1b9763316ef1c71d7a449127b175Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87fd18016a47ea8ae12641377a390172c4aa97a7Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb186eb47fb9dd327bdefa15f0c5fc55c53a40ddPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8022da1fa2fdf2fa204b445dd3354e7a66d085aPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eff45bfbc25a2509a6362dea6e699e14083c693cPatch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.