Bug 2395387 (CVE-2022-50289)

Summary: CVE-2022-50289 kernel: ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:11:06 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init()

ocfs2_table_header should be free in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() if
ocfs2_sysfs_init() failed, otherwise kmemleak will report memleak.

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810eeb5800 (size 128):
  comm "modprobe", pid 4507, jiffies 4296182506 (age 55.888s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    c0 40 14 a0 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00  .@..............
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<000000001e59e1cd>] __register_sysctl_table+0xca/0xef0
    [<00000000c04f70f7>] 0xffffffffa0050037
    [<000000001bd12912>] do_one_initcall+0xdb/0x480
    [<0000000064f766c9>] do_init_module+0x1cf/0x680
    [<000000002ba52db0>] load_module+0x6441/0x6f20
    [<000000009772580d>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0
    [<00000000380c1f22>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
    [<000000004cf473bc>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd