Bug 2363516 (CVE-2022-49927)

Summary: CVE-2022-49927 kernel: nfs4: Fix kmemleak when allocate slot failed
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:07:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfs4: Fix kmemleak when allocate slot failed

If one of the slot allocate failed, should cleanup all the other
allocated slots, otherwise, the allocated slots will leak:

  unreferenced object 0xffff8881115aa100 (size 64):
    comm ""mount.nfs"", pid 679, jiffies 4294744957 (age 115.037s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      00 cc 19 73 81 88 ff ff 00 a0 5a 11 81 88 ff ff  ...s......Z.....
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    backtrace:
      [<000000007a4c434a>] nfs4_find_or_create_slot+0x8e/0x130
      [<000000005472a39c>] nfs4_realloc_slot_table+0x23f/0x270
      [<00000000cd8ca0eb>] nfs40_init_client+0x4a/0x90
      [<00000000128486db>] nfs4_init_client+0xce/0x270
      [<000000008d2cacad>] nfs4_set_client+0x1a2/0x2b0
      [<000000000e593b52>] nfs4_create_server+0x300/0x5f0
      [<00000000e4425dd2>] nfs4_try_get_tree+0x65/0x110
      [<00000000d3a6176f>] vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0
      [<0000000016b5ad4c>] path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0
      [<00000000494cae71>] __x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0
      [<000000005d56bdec>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
      [<00000000687c9ae4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 05:40:41 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050110-CVE-2022-49927-461e@gregkh/T