CVE-2022-50631

RISC-V: kexec: Fix memory leak of fdt buffer

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 8, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 8, 2025

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Description

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

RISC-V: kexec: Fix memory leak of fdt buffer

This is reported by kmemleak detector:

unreferenced object 0xff60000082864000 (size 9588): comm "kexec", pid 146, jiffies 4294900634 (age 64.788s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): d0 0d fe ed 00 00 12 ed 00 00 00 48 00 00 11 40 ...........H...@ 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 ...(............ backtrace: [<00000000f95b17c4>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x3e [<00000000b9ec8e3e>] kmalloc_order+0x9c/0xc4 [<00000000a95cf02e>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x34/0xb6 [<00000000f01e68b4>] __kmalloc+0x5c2/0x62a [<000000002bd497b2>] kvmalloc_node+0x66/0xd6 [<00000000906542fa>] of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt+0xa6/0x6ea [<00000000e1166bde>] elf_kexec_load+0x206/0x4ec [<0000000036548e09>] kexec_image_load_default+0x40/0x4c [<0000000079fbe1b4>] sys_kexec_file_load+0x1c4/0x322 [<0000000040c62c03>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2

In elf_kexec_load(), a buffer is allocated via kvmalloc() to store fdt. While it's not freed back to system when kexec kernel is reloaded or unloaded. Then memory leak is caused. Fix it by introducing riscv specific function arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(), and freeing the buffer there.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6261586e0c91db14c34f894f4bc48f2300cff1d4 to before c66ad198b6497dee8f45d7ed5c03629c4525c7d0Affected
  • 6261586e0c91db14c34f894f4bc48f2300cff1d4 to before dc387c34d8dd10b02a333df098f8fd9bba177a45Affected
  • 6261586e0c91db14c34f894f4bc48f2300cff1d4 to before 96df59b1ae23f5c11698c3c2159aeb2ecd4944a4Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 6.0.18 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1.4 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.2 and laterNot affected

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