CVE-2022-49661

can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
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:

can: gs_usb: gs_usb_open/close(): fix memory leak

The gs_usb driver appears to suffer from a malady common to many USB CAN adapter drivers in that it performs usb_alloc_coherent() to allocate a number of USB request blocks (URBs) for RX, and then later relies on usb_kill_anchored_urbs() to free them, but this doesn't actually free them. As a result, this may be leaking DMA memory that's been used by the driver.

This commit is an adaptation of the techniques found in the esd_usb2 driver where a similar design pattern led to a memory leak. It explicitly frees the RX URBs and their DMA memory via a call to usb_free_coherent(). Since the RX URBs were allocated in the gs_can_open(), we remove them in gs_can_close() rather than in the disconnect function as was done in esd_usb2.

For more information, see the 928150fad41b ("can: esd_usb2: fix memory leak").

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da to before 339fa9f80d3b94177a7a459c6d115d3b56007d5aAffected
  • d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da to before c1d806bc29ff7ffe0e2a023583c8720ed96cb0b0Affected
  • d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da to before d91492638b054f4a359621ef216242be5973ed6bAffected
  • d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da to before 6f655b5e13fa4b27e915b6c209ac0da74fd75963Affected
  • d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da to before d0b8e223998866b3e7b2895927d4e9689b0a80d8Affected
  • d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da to before 0e60230bc64355c80abe993d1719fdb318094e20Affected
  • d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da to before ffb6cc6601ec7c8fa963dcf76025df4a02f2cf5cAffected
  • d08e973a77d128b25e01a08c34d89593fdf222da to before 2bda24ef95c0311ab93bda00db40486acf30bd0aAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.16Affected
  • before 3.16Not affected
  • 4.9.323 through 4.9.*Not affected
  • 4.14.288 through 4.14.*Not affected
  • 4.19.252 through 4.19.*Not affected
  • 5.4.205 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.130 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.54 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.18.11 through 5.18.*Not affected
  • 5.19 and laterNot affected

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