Bug 2363484 (CVE-2022-49793)

Summary: CVE-2022-49793 kernel: iio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in iio_sysfs_trig_init()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:06:34 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in iio_sysfs_trig_init()

dev_set_name() allocates memory for name, it need be freed
when device_add() fails, call put_device() to give up the
reference that hold in device_initialize(), so that it can
be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0.

Fault injection test can trigger this:

unreferenced object 0xffff8e8340a7b4c0 (size 32):
  comm "modprobe", pid 243, jiffies 4294678145 (age 48.845s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    69 69 6f 5f 73 79 73 66 73 5f 74 72 69 67 67 65  iio_sysfs_trigge
    72 00 a7 40 83 8e ff ff 00 86 13 c4 f6 ee ff ff  r..@............
  backtrace:
    [<0000000074999de8>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e9/0x360
    [<00000000497fd30b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1a0
    [<000000003636c520>] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60
    [<0000000032f84da2>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x1e/0x90
    [<0000000092efe493>] dev_set_name+0x4e/0x70

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:05:48 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050123-CVE-2022-49793-f63c@gregkh/T