5.5

CVE-2022-49902

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

block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk failure

kmemleak reported memory leaks in device_add_disk():

kmemleak: 3 new suspected memory leaks

unreferenced object 0xffff88800f420800 (size 512):
  comm "modprobe", pid 4275, jiffies 4295639067 (age 223.512s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    04 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 e1 f5 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000d3662699>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60
    [<00000000edc7aadc>] wbt_init+0x50/0x6f0
    [<0000000069601d16>] wbt_enable_default+0x157/0x1c0
    [<0000000028fc393f>] blk_register_queue+0x2a4/0x420
    [<000000007345a042>] device_add_disk+0x6fd/0xe40
    [<0000000060e6aab0>] nbd_dev_add+0x828/0xbf0 [nbd]
    ...

It is because the memory allocated in wbt_enable_default() is not
released in device_add_disk() error path.
Normally, these memory are freed in:

del_gendisk()
  rq_qos_exit()
    rqos->ops->exit(rqos);
      wbt_exit()

So rq_qos_exit() is called to free the rq_wb memory for wbt_init().
However in the error path of device_add_disk(), only
blk_unregister_queue() is called and make rq_wb memory leaked.

Add rq_qos_exit() to the error path to fix it.
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.15 < 5.15.78
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.0.8
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.1 Updaterc3
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.01% 0.016
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.