Bug 2373521 (CVE-2022-49959)

Summary: CVE-2022-49959 kernel: openvswitch: fix memory leak at failed datapath creation
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:06:39 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

openvswitch: fix memory leak at failed datapath creation

ovs_dp_cmd_new()->ovs_dp_change()->ovs_dp_set_upcall_portids()
allocates array via kmalloc.
If for some reason new_vport() fails during ovs_dp_cmd_new()
dp->upcall_portids must be freed.
Add missing kfree.

Kmemleak example:
unreferenced object 0xffff88800c382500 (size 64):
  comm "dump_state", pid 323, jiffies 4294955418 (age 104.347s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    5e c2 79 e4 1f 7a 38 c7 09 21 38 0c 80 88 ff ff  ^.y..z8..!8.....
    03 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 28 00 00 00  ............(...
  backtrace:
    [<0000000071bebc9f>] ovs_dp_set_upcall_portids+0x38/0xa0
    [<000000000187d8bd>] ovs_dp_change+0x63/0xe0
    [<000000002397e446>] ovs_dp_cmd_new+0x1f0/0x380
    [<00000000aa06f36e>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xea/0x150
    [<000000008f583bc4>] genl_rcv_msg+0xdc/0x1e0
    [<00000000fa10e377>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100
    [<000000004959cece>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
    [<000000004699ac7f>] netlink_unicast+0x23e/0x360
    [<00000000c153573e>] netlink_sendmsg+0x24e/0x4b0
    [<000000006f4aa380>] sock_sendmsg+0x62/0x70
    [<00000000d0068654>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x230/0x270
    [<0000000012dacf7d>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x88/0xd0
    [<0000000011776020>] __sys_sendmsg+0x59/0xa0
    [<000000002e8f2dc1>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
    [<000000003243e7cb>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 18:34:06 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061813-CVE-2022-49959-d2b7@gregkh/T