CVE-2022-49801

tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
May 23, 2026
Reserved
May 1, 2025

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Description

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

tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_read_pipe()

kmemleak reports this issue:

unreferenced object 0xffff888105a18900 (size 128): comm "test_progs", pid 18933, jiffies 4336275356 (age 22801.766s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 25 73 00 90 81 88 ff ff 26 05 00 00 42 01 58 04 %s......&...B.X. 03 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000560143a1>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4a/0x140 [<000000006af00822>] krealloc+0x8d/0xf0 [<00000000c309be6a>] trace_iter_expand_format+0x99/0x150 [<000000005a53bdb6>] trace_check_vprintf+0x1e0/0x11d0 [<0000000065629d9d>] trace_event_printf+0xb6/0xf0 [<000000009a690dc7>] trace_raw_output_bpf_trace_printk+0x89/0xc0 [<00000000d22db172>] print_trace_line+0x73c/0x1480 [<00000000cdba76ba>] tracing_read_pipe+0x45c/0x9f0 [<0000000015b58459>] vfs_read+0x17b/0x7c0 [<000000004aeee8ed>] ksys_read+0xed/0x1c0 [<0000000063d3d898>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000a06dda7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

iter->fmt alloced in tracing_read_pipe() -> .. ->trace_iter_expand_format(), but not freed, to fix, add free in tracing_release_pipe()

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce to before 2c21ee020ce43d744ecd7f3e9bddfcaafef270ceAffected
  • efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce to before a7d3f8f33c113478737bc61bb32ec5f9a987da7dAffected
  • efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce to before 649e72070cbbb8600eb823833e4748f5a0815116Affected
  • 840ce9cfc86f89c335625ec297acc0375f82e19bAffected
  • 5.10.190 to before 5.11Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not affected
  • 5.15.80 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.0.10 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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