Bug 2401557 (CVE-2023-53611) - CVE-2023-53611 kernel: ipmi_si: fix a memleak in try_smi_init()
Summary: CVE-2023-53611 kernel: ipmi_si: fix a memleak in try_smi_init()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53611
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-04 16:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-04 00:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:07:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipmi_si: fix a memleak in try_smi_init()

Kmemleak reported the following leak info in try_smi_init():

unreferenced object 0xffff00018ecf9400 (size 1024):
  comm "modprobe", pid 2707763, jiffies 4300851415 (age 773.308s)
  backtrace:
    [<000000004ca5b312>] __kmalloc+0x4b8/0x7b0
    [<00000000953b1072>] try_smi_init+0x148/0x5dc [ipmi_si]
    [<000000006460d325>] 0xffff800081b10148
    [<0000000039206ea5>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2a4
    [<00000000601399ce>] do_init_module+0x50/0x300
    [<000000003c12ba3c>] load_module+0x7a8/0x9e0
    [<00000000c246fffe>] __se_sys_init_module+0x104/0x180
    [<00000000eea99093>] __arm64_sys_init_module+0x24/0x30
    [<0000000021b1ef87>] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x94/0x250
    [<0000000070f4f8b7>] do_el0_svc+0x48/0xe0
    [<000000005a05337f>] el0_svc+0x24/0x3c
    [<000000005eb248d6>] el0_sync_handler+0x160/0x164
    [<0000000030a59039>] el0_sync+0x160/0x180

The problem was that when an error occurred before handlers registration
and after allocating `new_smi->si_sm`, the variable wouldn't be freed in
the error handling afterwards since `shutdown_smi()` hadn't been
registered yet. Fix it by adding a `kfree()` in the error handling path
in `try_smi_init()`.


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