CVE-2022-50269
CVE-2022-50269 updated by NVD
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init() A memory leak was reported after the vkms module install failed. unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc28520 (size 16): comm "modprobe", pid 9662, jiffies 4298009455 (age 42.590s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 01 01 00 64 81 88 ff ff 00 00 dc 0a 81 88 ff ff ...d............ backtrace: [ ] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x60 [ ] 0xffffffffc45200a9 [ ] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0 [ ] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680 [ ] load_module+0x6249/0x7110 [ ] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200 [ ] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [ ] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 The reason is that the vkms_init() returns without checking the return value of vkms_create(), and if the vkms_create() failed, the config allocated at the beginning of vkms_init() is leaked. vkms_init() config = kmalloc(...) # config allocated ... return vkms_create() # vkms_create failed and config is leaked Fix this problem by checking return value of vkms_create() and free the config if error happened.
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