Bug 2347729 (CVE-2022-49148)

Summary: CVE-2022-49148 kernel: watch_queue: Free the page array when watch_queue is dismantled
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:04:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

watch_queue: Free the page array when watch_queue is dismantled

Commit 7ea1a0124b6d ("watch_queue: Free the alloc bitmap when the
watch_queue is torn down") took care of the bitmap, but not the page
array.

  BUG: memory leak
  unreferenced object 0xffff88810d9bc140 (size 32):
  comm "syz-executor335", pid 3603, jiffies 4294946994 (age 12.840s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    40 a7 40 04 00 ea ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  @.@.............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
     kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:621 [inline]
     kcalloc include/linux/slab.h:652 [inline]
     watch_queue_set_size+0x12f/0x2e0 kernel/watch_queue.c:251
     pipe_ioctl+0x82/0x140 fs/pipe.c:632
     vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
     __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
     __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]
     __x64_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:860
     do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 22:04:32 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022608-CVE-2022-49148-88d2@gregkh/T