CVE-2022-49381

jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_fill_super

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

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

jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_fill_super

If jffs2_iget() or d_make_root() in jffs2_do_fill_super() returns an error, we can observe the following kmemleak report:

-------------------------------------------- unreferenced object 0xffff888105a65340 (size 64): comm "mount", pid 710, jiffies 4302851558 (age 58.239s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff859c45e5>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x475/0x8a0 [<ffffffff86160146>] jffs2_sum_init+0x96/0x1a0 [<ffffffff86140e25>] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x745/0x2120 [<ffffffff86149fec>] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x35c/0x810 [<ffffffff8614aae9>] jffs2_fill_super+0x2b9/0x3b0 [...] unreferenced object 0xffff8881bd7f0000 (size 65536): comm "mount", pid 710, jiffies 4302851558 (age 58.239s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff858579ba>] kmalloc_order+0xda/0x110 [<ffffffff85857a11>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x21/0x130 [<ffffffff859c2ed1>] __kmalloc+0x711/0x8a0 [<ffffffff86160189>] jffs2_sum_init+0xd9/0x1a0 [<ffffffff86140e25>] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x745/0x2120 [<ffffffff86149fec>] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x35c/0x810 [<ffffffff8614aae9>] jffs2_fill_super+0x2b9/0x3b0 [...] --------------------------------------------

This is because the resources allocated in jffs2_sum_init() are not released. Call jffs2_sum_exit() to release these resources to solve the problem.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 4ba7bbeab8009faf3a726e565d98816593ddd5b0Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 4da8763a3d2b684c773b72ed80fad40bc264bc40Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 28048a4cf3813b7cf5cc8cce629dfdc7951cb1c2Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before d3a4fff1e7e408c32649030daa7c2c42a7e19a95Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 3252d327f977b14663a10967f3b0930d6c325687Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before ecc53e58596542791e82eff00702f8af7a313f70Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before cf9db013e167bc8fc2ecd7a13ed97a37df0c9dabAffected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before 69295267c481545f636b69ff341b8db75aa136b9Affected
  • e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 to before c14adb1cf70a984ed081c67e9d27bc3caad9537cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.15Affected
  • before 2.6.15Not affected
  • 4.9.318 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.283 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.247 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.198 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.122 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.47 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.17.15 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18.4 through 5.18.*Not affected
  • 5.19 and laterNot affected

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