5.5

CVE-2026-31714

f2fs: fix to avoid memory leak in f2fs_rename()

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

f2fs: fix to avoid memory leak in f2fs_rename()

syzbot reported a f2fs bug as below:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888127f70830 (size 16):
  comm "syz.0.23", pid 6144, jiffies 4294943712
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    3c af 57 72 5b e6 8f ad 6e 8e fd 33 42 39 03 ff  <.Wr[...n..3B9..
  backtrace (crc 925f8a80):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4520 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4844 [inline]
    __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5237 [inline]
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x3bd/0x560 mm/slub.c:5250
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
    fscrypt_setup_filename+0x15e/0x3b0 fs/crypto/fname.c:364
    f2fs_setup_filename+0x52/0xb0 fs/f2fs/dir.c:143
    f2fs_rename+0x159/0xca0 fs/f2fs/namei.c:961
    f2fs_rename2+0xd5/0xf20 fs/f2fs/namei.c:1308
    vfs_rename+0x7ff/0x1250 fs/namei.c:6026
    filename_renameat2+0x4f4/0x660 fs/namei.c:6144
    __do_sys_renameat2 fs/namei.c:6173 [inline]
    __se_sys_renameat2 fs/namei.c:6168 [inline]
    __x64_sys_renameat2+0x59/0x80 fs/namei.c:6168
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The root cause is in commit 40b2d55e0452 ("f2fs: fix to create selinux
label during whiteout initialization"), we added a call to
f2fs_setup_filename() without a matching call to f2fs_free_filename(),
fix it.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.6.23 < 6.6.136
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7.11 < 6.8
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.8.2 < 6.9
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.9 < 6.12.84
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.25
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 7.0.2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version7.1 Updaterc1
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.11% 0.017
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
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/047c0aef6af37a2a35181aa085c616ad286386f1
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/369eb2016d8e2f01931b3bad1cb9cefa83f44003
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cf11e6f36c170050c12171dd6fd3142711478fc
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a76c1cad4e80a9802ef8048662255417e3ce5b79
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c78206dcb912ab60b8ee3cbe8c48d749a9a12e1e
Patch