Bug 2373647 (CVE-2022-50076)

Summary: CVE-2022-50076 kernel: cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:12:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close

xfstests on smb21 report kmemleak as below:

  unreferenced object 0xffff8881767d6200 (size 64):
    comm "xfs_io", pid 1284, jiffies 4294777434 (age 20.789s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      80 5a d0 11 81 88 ff ff 78 8a aa 63 81 88 ff ff  .Z......x..c....
      00 71 99 76 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .q.v............
    backtrace:
      [<00000000ad04e6ea>] cifs_close+0x92/0x2c0
      [<0000000028b93c82>] __fput+0xff/0x3f0
      [<00000000d8116851>] task_work_run+0x85/0xc0
      [<0000000027e14f9e>] do_exit+0x5e5/0x1240
      [<00000000fb492b95>] do_group_exit+0x58/0xe0
      [<00000000129a32d9>] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x28/0x30
      [<00000000e3f7d8e9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
      [<00000000102e8a0b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

When cancel the deferred close work, we should also cleanup the struct
cifs_deferred_close.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-18 22:24:39 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061855-CVE-2022-50076-f930@gregkh/T