Bug 2425061 (CVE-2023-54050) - CVE-2023-54050 kernel: ubifs: Fix memleak when insert_old_idx() failed
Summary: CVE-2023-54050 kernel: ubifs: Fix memleak when insert_old_idx() failed
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-54050
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-24 13:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-25 05:30 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 13:05:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ubifs: Fix memleak when insert_old_idx() failed

Following process will cause a memleak for copied up znode:

dirty_cow_znode
  zn = copy_znode(c, znode);
  err = insert_old_idx(c, zbr->lnum, zbr->offs);
  if (unlikely(err))
     return ERR_PTR(err);   // No one refers to zn.

Fetch a reproducer in [Link].

Function copy_znode() is split into 2 parts: resource allocation
and znode replacement, insert_old_idx() is split in similar way,
so resource cleanup could be done in error handling path without
corrupting metadata(mem & disk).
It's okay that old index inserting is put behind of add_idx_dirt(),
old index is used in layout_leb_in_gaps(), so the two processes do
not depend on each other.


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