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Change History

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

bpf: Preserve param->string when parsing mount options

In bpf_parse_param(), keep the value of param->string intact so it can
be freed later. Otherwise, the kmalloc area pointed to by param->string
will be leaked as shown below:

unreferenced object 0xffff888118c46d20 (size 8):
  comm "new_name", pid 12109, jiffies 4295580214
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    61 6e 79 00 38 c9 5c 7e                          any.8.\~
  backtrace 

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f97c03f43fadc407de5b5cb01c07755053e1c22 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d7a0a426540319327309035509cb768a2f5c2c4 [No types assigned]