Bug 2348156 (CVE-2022-49468)

Summary: CVE-2022-49468 kernel: thermal/core: Fix memory leak in __thermal_cooling_device_register()
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:19:34 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

thermal/core: Fix memory leak in __thermal_cooling_device_register()

I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:

unreferenced object 0xffff888010080000 (size 264312):
  comm "182", pid 102533, jiffies 4296434960 (age 10.100s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 40 7f 1f b9 ff ff ff ff  ........@.......
  backtrace:
    [<0000000038b2f4fc>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x1d/0x110 mm/slab_common.c:969
    [<00000000ebcb8da5>] __kmalloc+0x373/0x420 include/linux/slab.h:510
    [<0000000084137f13>] thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs+0x15d/0x2d0 include/linux/slab.h:586
    [<00000000352b8755>] __thermal_cooling_device_register+0x332/0xa60 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:927
    [<00000000fb9f331b>] devm_thermal_of_cooling_device_register+0x6b/0xf0 drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:1041
    [<000000009b8012d2>] max6650_probe.cold+0x557/0x6aa drivers/hwmon/max6650.c:211
    [<00000000da0b7e04>] i2c_device_probe+0x472/0xac0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:561

If device_register() fails, thermal_cooling_device_destroy_sysfs() need be called
to free the memory allocated in thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 13:38:27 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022602-CVE-2022-49468-fc5a@gregkh/T

Comment 4 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 17:49:50 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022602-CVE-2022-49468-fc5a@gregkh/T