vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49902): linux vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 8, 2025
Modified
Sep 1, 2025

Description

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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