Bug 2363385 (CVE-2022-49902) - CVE-2022-49902 kernel: block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk failure
Summary: CVE-2022-49902 kernel: block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49902
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-27 07:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:02:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk failure

kmemleak reported memory leaks in device_add_disk():

kmemleak: 3 new suspected memory leaks

unreferenced object 0xffff88800f420800 (size 512):
  comm "modprobe", pid 4275, jiffies 4295639067 (age 223.512s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    04 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 e1 f5 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000d3662699>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60
    [<00000000edc7aadc>] wbt_init+0x50/0x6f0
    [<0000000069601d16>] wbt_enable_default+0x157/0x1c0
    [<0000000028fc393f>] blk_register_queue+0x2a4/0x420
    [<000000007345a042>] device_add_disk+0x6fd/0xe40
    [<0000000060e6aab0>] nbd_dev_add+0x828/0xbf0 [nbd]
    ...

It is because the memory allocated in wbt_enable_default() is not
released in device_add_disk() error path.
Normally, these memory are freed in:

del_gendisk()
  rq_qos_exit()
    rqos->ops->exit(rqos);
      wbt_exit()

So rq_qos_exit() is called to free the rq_wb memory for wbt_init().
However in the error path of device_add_disk(), only
blk_unregister_queue() is called and make rq_wb memory leaked.

Add rq_qos_exit() to the error path to fix it.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 03:50:32 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050102-CVE-2022-49902-59fe@gregkh/T


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