CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-49926
5.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 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:
net: dsa: Fix possible memory leaks in dsa_loop_init()
kmemleak reported memory leaks in dsa_loop_init():
kmemleak: 12 new suspected memory leaks
unreferenced object 0xffff8880138ce000 (size 2048):
comm "modprobe", pid 390, jiffies 4295040478 (age 238.976s)
backtrace:
[<000000006a94f1d5>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60
[<00000000a9c44622>] phy_device_create+0x5d/0x970
[<00000000d0ee2afc>] get_phy_device+0xf3/0x2b0
[<00000000dca0c71f>] __fixed_phy_register.part.0+0x92/0x4e0
[<000000008a834798>] fixed_phy_register+0x84/0xb0
[<0000000055223fcb>] dsa_loop_init+0xa9/0x116 [dsa_loop]
...
There are two reasons for memleak in dsa_loop_init().
First, fixed_phy_register() create and register phy_device:
fixed_phy_register()
get_phy_device()
phy_device_create() # freed by phy_device_free()
phy_device_register() # freed by phy_device_remove()
But fixed_phy_unregister() only calls phy_device_remove().
So the memory allocated in phy_device_create() is leaked.
Second, when mdio_driver_register() fail in dsa_loop_init(),
it just returns and there is no cleanup for phydevs.
Fix the problems by catching the error of mdio_driver_register()
in dsa_loop_init(), then calling both fixed_phy_unregister() and
phy_device_free() to release phydevs.
Also add a function for phydevs cleanup to avoid duplacate.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 4.14.299)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.265)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.224)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.154)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.0.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a098fc9b42bd7fce66764866aa514639667b6e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d2024b138d9f7b02ae13ee997fd3a71e9e46254 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/633efc8b3dc96f56f5a57f2a49764853a2fa3f50 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/935b4beb724946a37cebf97191592d4879d3a3a3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f555b1584fc2d5d16ee3c4d9438e93ac7c502c7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbc5d7b46a729bfcbb5544f6612b7a67dd4f4d6f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d593e1ede655b74c42e4e4fe285ea64aee96fb5c Patch