Bug 2373572 (CVE-2022-49996) - CVE-2022-49996 kernel: btrfs: fix possible memory leak in btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path()
Summary: CVE-2022-49996 kernel: btrfs: fix possible memory leak in btrfs_get_dev_args_...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49996
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-19 10:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:08:52 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix possible memory leak in btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path()

In btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path(), btrfs_get_bdev_and_sb() can fail if
the path is invalid. In this case, btrfs_get_dev_args_from_path()
returns directly without freeing args->uuid and args->fsid allocated
before, which causes memory leak.

To fix these possible leaks, when btrfs_get_bdev_and_sb() fails,
btrfs_put_dev_args_from_path() is called to clean up the memory.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 10:39:47 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061826-CVE-2022-49996-71e2@gregkh/T


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