CVE-2024-56712

udmabuf: fix memory leak on last export_udmabuf() error path

State
Published
Severity
3.3 Low
Published
Dec 29, 2024
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Dec 27, 2024

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Description

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

udmabuf: fix memory leak on last export_udmabuf() error path

In export_udmabuf(), if dma_buf_fd() fails because the FD table is full, a dma_buf owning the udmabuf has already been created; but the error handling in udmabuf_create() will tear down the udmabuf without doing anything about the containing dma_buf.

This leaves a dma_buf in memory that contains a dangling pointer; though that doesn't seem to lead to anything bad except a memory leak.

Fix it by moving the dma_buf_fd() call out of export_udmabuf() so that we can give it different error handling.

Note that the shape of this code changed a lot in commit 5e72b2b41a21 ("udmabuf: convert udmabuf driver to use folios"); but the memory leak seems to have existed since the introduction of udmabuf.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.3 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 to before 00ebdef47994206f60546929a0f6f63285497272Affected
  • fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 to before e469922fbdf6ad729e5dc8d49289b5036a0ecdf8Affected
  • fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 to before c9fc8428d4255c2128da9c4d5cd92e554d0150cfAffected
  • fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 to before f49856f525acd5bef52ae28b7da2e001bbe7439eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.20Affected
  • before 4.20Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.7 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

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