linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49901: blk-mq: Fix kmemleak in blk_mq_init_allocated

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Message-ID: <2025050101-CVE-2022-49901-1130@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  1 May 2025 16:11:31 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49901: blk-mq: Fix kmemleak in blk_mq_init_allocated_queue

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-mq: Fix kmemleak in blk_mq_init_allocated_queue

There is a kmemleak caused by modprobe null_blk.ko

unreferenced object 0xffff8881acb1f000 (size 1024):
  comm "modprobe", pid 836, jiffies 4294971190 (age 27.068s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 53 99 9e ff ff ff ff  .........S......
  backtrace:
    [<000000004a10c249>] kmalloc_node_trace+0x22/0x60
    [<00000000648f7950>] blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx+0x289/0x350
    [<00000000af06de0e>] blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs+0x2fe/0x3d0
    [<00000000e00c1872>] blk_mq_init_allocated_queue+0x48c/0x1440
    [<00000000d16b4e68>] __blk_mq_alloc_disk+0xc8/0x1c0
    [<00000000d10c98c3>] 0xffffffffc450d69d
    [<00000000b9299f48>] 0xffffffffc4538392
    [<0000000061c39ed6>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0
    [<00000000b389383b>] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680
    [<0000000087cf3542>] load_module+0x6249/0x7110
    [<00000000beba61b8>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200
    [<00000000fdcfff51>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
    [<000000003c0f1f71>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

That is because q->ma_ops is set to NULL before blk_release_queue is
called.

blk_mq_init_queue_data
  blk_mq_init_allocated_queue
    blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs
      for (i = 0; i < set->nr_hw_queues; i++) {
        old_hctx = xa_load(&q->hctx_table, i);
        if (!blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx(.., i, ..))		[1]
          if (!old_hctx)
	    break;

      xa_for_each_start(&q->hctx_table, j, hctx, j)
        blk_mq_exit_hctx(q, set, hctx, j); 			[2]

    if (!q->nr_hw_queues)					[3]
      goto err_hctxs;

  err_exit:
      q->mq_ops = NULL;			  			[4]

  blk_put_queue
    blk_release_queue
      if (queue_is_mq(q))					[5]
        blk_mq_release(q);

[1]: blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx failed at i != 0.
[2]: The hctxs allocated by [1] are moved to q->unused_hctx_list and
will be cleaned up in blk_mq_release.
[3]: q->nr_hw_queues is 0.
[4]: Set q->mq_ops to NULL.
[5]: queue_is_mq returns false due to [4]. And blk_mq_release
will not be called. The hctxs in q->unused_hctx_list are leaked.

To fix it, call blk_release_queue in exception path.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49901 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.2 with commit 2f8f1336a48bd5186de3476da0a3e2ec06d0533a and fixed in 6.0.8 with commit 2dc97e15a54b7bdf457848aa8c663c98a24e58a6
	Issue introduced in 5.2 with commit 2f8f1336a48bd5186de3476da0a3e2ec06d0533a and fixed in 6.1 with commit 943f45b9399ed8b2b5190cbc797995edaa97f58f

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-49901
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	block/blk-mq.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dc97e15a54b7bdf457848aa8c663c98a24e58a6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/943f45b9399ed8b2b5190cbc797995edaa97f58f