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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49436

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 2:01:20 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

powerpc/papr_scm: Fix leaking nvdimm_events_map elements

Right now 'char *' elements allocated for individual 'stat_id' in
'papr_scm_priv.nvdimm_events_map[]' during papr_scm_pmu_check_events(), get
leaked in papr_scm_remove() and papr_scm_pmu_register(),
papr_scm_pmu_check_events() error paths.

Also individual 'stat_id' arent NULL terminated 'char *' instead they are fixed
8-byte sized identifiers. However papr_scm_pmu_register() assumes it to be a
NULL terminated 'char *' and at other places it assumes it to be a
'papr_scm_perf_stat.stat_id' sized string which is 8-byes in size.

Fix this by allocating the memory for papr_scm_priv.nvdimm_events_map to also
include space for 'stat_id' entries. This is possible since number of available
events/stat_ids are known upfront. This saves some memory and one extra level of
indirection from 'nvdimm_events_map' to 'stat_id'. Also rest of the code
can continue to call 'kfree(papr_scm_priv.nvdimm_events_map)' without needing to
iterate over the array and free up individual elements.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e0946e22f3665d27325d389ff45ade6e93f3678
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b073096df4dec70d0436321b7093bad27ae91f9e