linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50702: vdpa_sim: fix possible memory leak in vdpasim_net_init() and vdpasim_blk

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Message-ID: <2025122418-CVE-2022-50702-c339@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:56:19 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50702: vdpa_sim: fix possible memory leak in vdpasim_net_init() and vdpasim_blk_init()

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

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

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

vdpa_sim: fix possible memory leak in vdpasim_net_init() and vdpasim_blk_init()

Inject fault while probing module, if device_register() fails in
vdpasim_net_init() or vdpasim_blk_init(), but the refcount of kobject is
not decreased to 0, the name allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked.
Fix this by calling put_device(), so that name can be freed in
callback function kobject_cleanup().

(vdpa_sim_net)
unreferenced object 0xffff88807eebc370 (size 16):
  comm "modprobe", pid 3848, jiffies 4362982860 (age 18.153s)
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    76 64 70 61 73 69 6d 5f 6e 65 74 00 6b 6b 6b a5  vdpasim_net.kkk.
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8174f19e>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4e/0x150
    [<ffffffff81731d53>] kstrdup+0x33/0x60
    [<ffffffff83a5d421>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x41/0x110
    [<ffffffff82d87aab>] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0
    [<ffffffff82d91a23>] device_add+0xe3/0x1a80
    [<ffffffffa0270013>] 0xffffffffa0270013
    [<ffffffff81001c27>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2e0
    [<ffffffff813739cb>] do_init_module+0x1ab/0x640
    [<ffffffff81379d20>] load_module+0x5d00/0x77f0
    [<ffffffff8137bc40>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x110/0x1b0
    [<ffffffff83c4d505>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
    [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

(vdpa_sim_blk)
unreferenced object 0xffff8881070c1250 (size 16):
  comm "modprobe", pid 6844, jiffies 4364069319 (age 17.572s)
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    76 64 70 61 73 69 6d 5f 62 6c 6b 00 6b 6b 6b a5  vdpasim_blk.kkk.
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8174f19e>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4e/0x150
    [<ffffffff81731d53>] kstrdup+0x33/0x60
    [<ffffffff83a5d421>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x41/0x110
    [<ffffffff82d87aab>] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0
    [<ffffffff82d91a23>] device_add+0xe3/0x1a80
    [<ffffffffa0220013>] 0xffffffffa0220013
    [<ffffffff81001c27>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2e0
    [<ffffffff813739cb>] do_init_module+0x1ab/0x640
    [<ffffffff81379d20>] load_module+0x5d00/0x77f0
    [<ffffffff8137bc40>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x110/0x1b0
    [<ffffffff83c4d505>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
    [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50702 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit a3c06ae158dd6fa8336157c31d9234689d068d02 and fixed in 5.15.87 with commit 586e6fd7d581f987f7d0d2592edf0b26397e783e
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit a3c06ae158dd6fa8336157c31d9234689d068d02 and fixed in 6.0.19 with commit 5be953e353fe421f2983e1fd37f07fba97edbffc
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit a3c06ae158dd6fa8336157c31d9234689d068d02 and fixed in 6.1.5 with commit 337c24d817e28dd454ca22f1063dfad20822426e
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit a3c06ae158dd6fa8336157c31d9234689d068d02 and fixed in 6.2 with commit aeca7ff254843d49a8739f07f7dab1341450111d

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-2022-50702
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/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_blk.c
	drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_net.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/586e6fd7d581f987f7d0d2592edf0b26397e783e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5be953e353fe421f2983e1fd37f07fba97edbffc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/337c24d817e28dd454ca22f1063dfad20822426e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aeca7ff254843d49a8739f07f7dab1341450111d