CVE-2022-49902

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.15-5.15.78 5.16-6.0.8 - Use-After-Free in Block Device Registration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk failure kmemleak reported memory leaks in device_add_disk(): kmemleak: 3 new suspected memory leaks unreferenced object 0xffff88800f420800 (size 512): comm "modprobe", pid 4275, jiffies 4295639067 (age 223.512s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 04 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 e1 f5 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000d3662699>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60 [<00000000edc7aadc>] wbt_init+0x50/0x6f0 [<0000000069601d16>] wbt_enable_default+0x157/0x1c0 [<0000000028fc393f>] blk_register_queue+0x2a4/0x420 [<000000007345a042>] device_add_disk+0x6fd/0xe40 [<0000000060e6aab0>] nbd_dev_add+0x828/0xbf0 [nbd] ... It is because the memory allocated in wbt_enable_default() is not released in device_add_disk() error path. Normally, these memory are freed in: del_gendisk() rq_qos_exit() rqos->ops->exit(rqos); wbt_exit() So rq_qos_exit() is called to free the rq_wb memory for wbt_init(). However in the error path of device_add_disk(), only blk_unregister_queue() is called and make rq_wb memory leaked. Add rq_qos_exit() to the error path to fix it.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 5.15.78linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.8linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.78 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.0.8 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux 83cbce9574462c6b4eed6797bdaf18fae6859ab3 - 4e68c5da60cd79950bd56287ae80b39d6261f995
Linux/Linux 83cbce9574462c6b4eed6797bdaf18fae6859ab3 - 528677d3b4af985445bd4ac667485ded1ed11220
Linux/Linux 83cbce9574462c6b4eed6797bdaf18fae6859ab3 - fa81cbafbf5764ad5053512152345fab37a1fe18
... and 2 more
Published May 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026