CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47523
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
IB/hfi1: Fix leak of rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr
This buffer is currently allocated in hfi1_init():
if (reinit)
ret = init_after_reset(dd);
else
ret = loadtime_init(dd);
if (ret)
goto done;
/* allocate dummy tail memory for all receive contexts */
dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(&dd->pcidev->dev,
sizeof(u64),
&dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_dma,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr) {
dd_dev_err(dd, "cannot allocate dummy tail memory\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto done;
}
The reinit triggered path will overwrite the old allocation and leak it.
Fix by moving the allocation to hfi1_alloc_devdata() and the deallocation
to hfi1_free_devdata().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 5.10.85)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.8)
• linux linux kernel 5.16
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c08271f4ed0e24633b3f81ceff61052b9d45efc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60a8b5a1611b4a26de4839ab9c1fc2a9cf3e17c1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/834d0fb978643eaf09da425de197cc16a7c2761b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c08271f4ed0e24633b3f81ceff61052b9d45efc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60a8b5a1611b4a26de4839ab9c1fc2a9cf3e17c1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/834d0fb978643eaf09da425de197cc16a7c2761b Patch