Bug 2363505 (CVE-2022-49837)

Summary: CVE-2022-49837 kernel: bpf: Fix memory leaks in __check_func_call
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:07:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix memory leaks in __check_func_call

kmemleak reports this issue:

unreferenced object 0xffff88817139d000 (size 2048):
  comm "test_progs", pid 33246, jiffies 4307381979 (age 45851.820s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 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:
    [<0000000045f075f0>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
    [<0000000098b7c90a>] __check_func_call+0x316/0x1230
    [<00000000b4c3c403>] check_helper_call+0x172e/0x4700
    [<00000000aa3875b7>] do_check+0x21d8/0x45e0
    [<000000001147357b>] do_check_common+0x767/0xaf0
    [<00000000b5a595b4>] bpf_check+0x43e3/0x5bc0
    [<0000000011e391b1>] bpf_prog_load+0xf26/0x1940
    [<0000000007f765c0>] __sys_bpf+0xd2c/0x3650
    [<00000000839815d6>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xc0
    [<00000000946ee250>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
    [<0000000000506b7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The root case here is: In function prepare_func_exit(), the callee is
not released in the abnormal scenario after "state->curframe--;". To
fix, move "state->curframe--;" to the very bottom of the function,
right when we free callee and reset frame[] pointer to NULL, as Andrii
suggested.

In addition, function __check_func_call() has a similar problem. In
the abnormal scenario before "state->curframe++;", the callee also
should be released by free_func_state().

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:04:18 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050139-CVE-2022-49837-c13b@gregkh/T