CVE-2021-47467

kunit: fix reference count leak in kfree_at_end

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
May 22, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
May 22, 2024

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Description

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

kunit: fix reference count leak in kfree_at_end

The reference counting issue happens in the normal path of kfree_at_end(). When kunit_alloc_and_get_resource() is invoked, the function forgets to handle the returned resource object, whose refcount increased inside, causing a refcount leak.

Fix this issue by calling kunit_alloc_resource() instead of kunit_alloc_and_get_resource().

Fixed the following when applying: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis + kunit_alloc_resource(test, NULL, kfree_res_free, GFP_KERNEL, (void *)to_free);

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1d71307a6f94df3750f8f884545a769e227172fe to before bbdd158b40b66a9403391a517f24ef6613573446Affected
  • 1d71307a6f94df3750f8f884545a769e227172fe to before f62314b1ced25c58b86e044fc951cd6a1ea234cfAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not affected
  • 5.14.15 through 5.14.*Not affected
  • 5.15 and laterNot affected

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