CVE-2022-49648

Summary

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

tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem

This reverts commit 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac.

As commit 46bbe5c671e0 ("tracing: fix double free") said, the "double free" problem reported by clang static analyzer is: > In parse_var_defs() if there is a problem allocating > var_defs.expr, the earlier var_defs.name is freed. > This free is duplicated by free_var_defs() which frees > the rest of the list.

However, if there is a problem allocating N-th var_defs.expr:

• in parse_var_defs(), the freed 'earlier var_defs.name' is actually the N-th var_defs.name;

• then in free_var_defs(), the names from 0th to (N-1)-th are freed;

                  IF ALLOCATING PROBLEM HAPPENED HERE!!! -+
                                                           \
                                                            |
    0th           1th                 (N-1)-th      N-th    V
    +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+-----------
  

var_defs: | name | expr | name | expr | … | name | expr | name | /// +————-+————-+—–+————-+———–

These two frees don't act on same name, so there was no "double free" problem before. Conversely, after that commit, we get a "memory leak" problem because the above "N-th var_defs.name" is not freed.

If enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and inject a fault at where the N-th var_defs.expr allocated, then execute on shell like: $ echo 'hist:key=call_site:val=$v1,$v2:v1=bytes_req,v2=bytes_alloc' >
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger

Then kmemleak reports: unreferenced object 0xffff8fb100ef3518 (size 8): comm "bash", pid 196, jiffies 4295681690 (age 28.538s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 76 31 00 00 b1 8f ff ff v1…… backtrace: [<0000000038fe4895>] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60 [<00000000c99c049a>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x206f/0x20e0 [<00000000ae70d2cc>] trigger_process_regex+0xc0/0x110 [<0000000066737a4c>] event_trigger_write+0x75/0xd0 [<000000007341e40c>] vfs_write+0xbb/0x2a0 [<0000000087fde4c2>] ksys_write+0x59/0xd0 [<00000000581e9cdf>] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80 [<00000000cf3b065c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Affected Software

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb622d5580b9e2ff694f62da6410618bd73853cb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecc6dec12c33aa92c086cd702af9f544ddaf3c75
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78a1400c42ee11197eb1f0f85ba51df9a4fdfff0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22eeff55679d9e7c0f768c79bfbd83e2f8142d89
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d453eb5e1eec89971aa5b3262857ee26cfdffd3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7edc3945bdce9c39198a10d6129377a5c53559c2

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