linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50772: netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_bus_dev

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Message-ID: <2025122458-CVE-2022-50772-774d@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:06:23 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50772: netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_bus_dev_new()

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

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

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

netdevsim: fix memory leak in nsim_bus_dev_new()

If device_register() failed in nsim_bus_dev_new(), the value of reference
in nsim_bus_dev->dev is 1. obj->name in nsim_bus_dev->dev will not be
released.

unreferenced object 0xffff88810352c480 (size 16):
  comm "echo", pid 5691, jiffies 4294945921 (age 133.270s)
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    6e 65 74 64 65 76 73 69 6d 31 00 00 00 00 00 00  netdevsim1......
  backtrace:
    [<000000005e2e5e26>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x3a/0xb0
    [<0000000094ca4fc8>] kvasprintf+0xc3/0x160
    [<00000000aad09bcc>] kvasprintf_const+0x55/0x180
    [<000000009bac868d>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150
    [<000000007c1a5d70>] dev_set_name+0xbb/0xf0
    [<00000000ad0d126b>] device_add+0x1f8/0x1cb0
    [<00000000c222ae24>] new_device_store+0x3b6/0x5e0
    [<0000000043593421>] bus_attr_store+0x72/0xa0
    [<00000000cbb1833a>] sysfs_kf_write+0x106/0x160
    [<00000000d0dedb8a>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x5a0
    [<00000000770b66e2>] vfs_write+0x8f0/0xc80
    [<0000000078bb39be>] ksys_write+0x106/0x210
    [<00000000005e55a4>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
    [<00000000eaa40bbc>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50772 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.2 with commit 40e4fe4ce115c409c3e2fbb247085103ef1cc755 and fixed in 6.0.7 with commit 77579e4065295071fbd9662f03430dca5b50b086
	Issue introduced in 5.2 with commit 40e4fe4ce115c409c3e2fbb247085103ef1cc755 and fixed in 6.1 with commit cf2010aa1c739bab067cbc90b690d28eaa0b47da

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-2022-50772
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:
	drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.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/77579e4065295071fbd9662f03430dca5b50b086
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf2010aa1c739bab067cbc90b690d28eaa0b47da