CVE-2022-49902
block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk failure
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.5 Medium
- Published
- May 1, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Reserved
- May 1, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk failure
kmemleak reported memory leaks in device_add_disk():
kmemleak: 3 new suspected memory leaks
unreferenced object 0xffff88800f420800 (size 512): comm "modprobe", pid 4275, jiffies 4295639067 (age 223.512s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 04 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 e1 f5 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000d3662699>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60 [<00000000edc7aadc>] wbt_init+0x50/0x6f0 [<0000000069601d16>] wbt_enable_default+0x157/0x1c0 [<0000000028fc393f>] blk_register_queue+0x2a4/0x420 [<000000007345a042>] device_add_disk+0x6fd/0xe40 [<0000000060e6aab0>] nbd_dev_add+0x828/0xbf0 [nbd] ...
It is because the memory allocated in wbt_enable_default() is not released in device_add_disk() error path. Normally, these memory are freed in:
del_gendisk() rq_qos_exit() rqos->ops->exit(rqos); wbt_exit()
So rq_qos_exit() is called to free the rq_wb memory for wbt_init(). However in the error path of device_add_disk(), only blk_unregister_queue() is called and make rq_wb memory leaked.
Add rq_qos_exit() to the error path to fix it.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
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