Bug 2426237 (CVE-2023-54171)

Summary: CVE-2023-54171 kernel: tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-30 13:18:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe

kmemleak reports:
  unreferenced object 0xffff88814d14e200 (size 256):
    comm "cat", pid 336, jiffies 4294871818 (age 779.490s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      04 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      0c d8 c8 9b ff ff ff ff 04 5a ca 9b ff ff ff ff  .........Z......
    backtrace:
      [<ffffffff9bdff18f>] __kmalloc+0x4f/0x140
      [<ffffffff9bc9238b>] trace_find_next_entry+0xbb/0x1d0
      [<ffffffff9bc9caef>] trace_print_lat_context+0xaf/0x4e0
      [<ffffffff9bc94490>] print_trace_line+0x3e0/0x950
      [<ffffffff9bc95499>] tracing_read_pipe+0x2d9/0x5a0
      [<ffffffff9bf03a43>] vfs_read+0x143/0x520
      [<ffffffff9bf04c2d>] ksys_read+0xbd/0x160
      [<ffffffff9d0f0edf>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
      [<ffffffff9d2000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

when reading file 'trace_pipe', 'iter->temp' is allocated or relocated
in trace_find_next_entry() but not freed before 'trace_pipe' is closed.

To fix it, free 'iter->temp' in tracing_release_pipe().