Bug 2363464 (CVE-2022-49871)

Summary: CVE-2022-49871 kernel: net: tun: Fix memory leaks of napi_get_frags
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:05:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: tun: Fix memory leaks of napi_get_frags

kmemleak reports after running test_progs:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881b1672dc0 (size 232):
  comm "test_progs", pid 394388, jiffies 4354712116 (age 841.975s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    e0 84 d7 a8 81 88 ff ff 80 2c 67 b1 81 88 ff ff  .........,g.....
    00 40 c5 9b 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .@..............
  backtrace:
    [<00000000c8f01748>] napi_skb_cache_get+0xd4/0x150
    [<0000000041c7fc09>] __napi_build_skb+0x15/0x50
    [<00000000431c7079>] __napi_alloc_skb+0x26e/0x540
    [<000000003ecfa30e>] napi_get_frags+0x59/0x140
    [<0000000099b2199e>] tun_get_user+0x183d/0x3bb0 [tun]
    [<000000008a5adef0>] tun_chr_write_iter+0xc0/0x1b1 [tun]
    [<0000000049993ff4>] do_iter_readv_writev+0x19f/0x320
    [<000000008f338ea2>] do_iter_write+0x135/0x630
    [<000000008a3377a4>] vfs_writev+0x12e/0x440
    [<00000000a6b5639a>] do_writev+0x104/0x280
    [<00000000ccf065d8>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
    [<00000000d776e329>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The issue occurs in the following scenarios:
tun_get_user()
  napi_gro_frags()
    napi_frags_finish()
      case GRO_NORMAL:
        gro_normal_one()
          list_add_tail(&skb->list, &napi->rx_list);
          <-- While napi->rx_count < READ_ONCE(gro_normal_batch),
          <-- gro_normal_list() is not called, napi->rx_list is not empty
  <-- not ask to complete the gro work, will cause memory leaks in
  <-- following tun_napi_del()
...
tun_napi_del()
  netif_napi_del()
    __netif_napi_del()
    <-- &napi->rx_list is not empty, which caused memory leaks

To fix, add napi_complete() after napi_gro_frags().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:16:20 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050151-CVE-2022-49871-619c@gregkh/T