CVE-2022-48659

mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 28, 2024
Updated: May 11, 2026
Reserved: Feb 25, 2024

Description

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

mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails

In create_unique_id(), kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL) can fail due to out-of-memory, if it fails, return errno correctly rather than triggering panic via BUG_ON();

kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:5893! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Call trace: sysfs_slab_add+0x258/0x260 mm/slub.c:5973 __kmem_cache_create+0x60/0x118 mm/slub.c:4899 create_cache mm/slab_common.c:229 [inline] kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x19c/0x31c mm/slab_common.c:335 kmem_cache_create+0x1c/0x28 mm/slab_common.c:390 f2fs_kmem_cache_create fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2766 [inline] f2fs_init_xattr_caches+0x78/0xb4 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:808 f2fs_fill_super+0x1050/0x1e0c fs/f2fs/super.c:4149 mount_bdev+0x1b8/0x210 fs/super.c:1400 f2fs_mount+0x44/0x58 fs/f2fs/super.c:4512 legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x74 fs/fs_context.c:610 vfs_get_tree+0x40/0x140 fs/super.c:1530 do_new_mount+0x1dc/0x4e4 fs/namespace.c:3040 path_mount+0x358/0x914 fs/namespace.c:3370 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline] __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3568 [inline] __arm64_sys_mount+0x2f8/0x408 fs/namespace.c:3568

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before e9219fa63c5c25804af82c7aa54d1ec770ebe457Affected 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before a1d83a19cec3bfeb2b3547a1f7631e432a766d1cAffected 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before e996821717c5cf8aa1e1abdb6b3d900a231e3755Affected 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 016b150992eebc32c4a18f783cf2bb6e2545a3d9Affected 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 379ac7905ff3f0a6a4e507d3e9f710ec4fab9124Affected 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 2d6e55e0c03804e1e227b80a5746e086d6c6696cAffected 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 02bcd951aa3c2cea95fb241c20802e9501940296Affected 81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 7e9c323c52b379d261a72dc7bd38120a761a93cdAffected
LinuxLinux	2.6.22Affected before 2.6.22Not affected 4.9.330 through 4.9.Not affected 4.14.295 through 4.14.Not affected 4.19.260 through 4.19.Not affected 5.4.215 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.146 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.71 through 5.15.Not affected 5.19.12 through 5.19.*Not affected 6.0 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before e9219fa63c5c25804af82c7aa54d1ec770ebe457Affected
81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before a1d83a19cec3bfeb2b3547a1f7631e432a766d1cAffected
81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before e996821717c5cf8aa1e1abdb6b3d900a231e3755Affected
81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 016b150992eebc32c4a18f783cf2bb6e2545a3d9Affected
81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 379ac7905ff3f0a6a4e507d3e9f710ec4fab9124Affected
81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 2d6e55e0c03804e1e227b80a5746e086d6c6696cAffected
81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 02bcd951aa3c2cea95fb241c20802e9501940296Affected
81819f0fc8285a2a5a921c019e3e3d7b6169d225 to before 7e9c323c52b379d261a72dc7bd38120a761a93cdAffected

LinuxLinux

2.6.22Affected
before 2.6.22Not affected
4.9.330 through 4.9.*Not affected
4.14.295 through 4.14.*Not affected
4.19.260 through 4.19.*Not affected
5.4.215 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.146 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.71 through 5.15.*Not affected
5.19.12 through 5.19.*Not affected
6.0 and laterNot affected

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