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

net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink

kmemleak reports memory leaks in macvlan_common_newlink, as follows:

 ip link add link eth0 name .. type macvlan mode source macaddr add
 <MAC-ADDR>

kmemleak reports:

unreferenced object 0xffff8880109bb140 (size 64):
  comm "ip", pid 284, jiffies 4294986150 (age 430.108s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 aa 5a 12 80 88 ff ff  ..........Z.....
    80 1b fa 0d 80 88 ff ff 1e ff ac af c7 c1 6b 6b  ..............kk
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff813e06a7>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1c7/0x300
    [<ffffffff81b66025>] macvlan_hash_add_source+0x45/0xc0
    [<ffffffff81b66a67>] macvlan_changelink_sources+0xd7/0x170
    [<ffffffff81b6775c>] macvlan_common_newlink+0x38c/0x5a0
    [<ffffffff81b6797e>] macvlan_newlink+0xe/0x20
    [<ffffffff81d97f8f>] __rtnl_newlink+0x7af/0xa50
    [<ffffffff81d98278>] rtnl_newlink+0x48/0x70
    ...

In the scenario where the macvlan mode is configured as 'source',
macvlan_changelink_sources() will be execured to reconfigure list of
remote source mac addresses, at the same time, if register_netdevice()
return an error, the resource generated by macvlan_changelink_sources()
is not cleaned up.

Using this patch, in the case of an error, it will execute
macvlan_flush_sources() to ensure that the resource is cleaned up.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21d3a8b6a1e39e7529ce9de07316ee13a63f305b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23569b5652ee8e8e55a12f7835f59af6f3cefc30

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/685e73e3f7a9fb75cbf049a9d0b7c45cc6b57b2e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/956e0216a19994443c90ba2ea6b0b284c9c4f9cb

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ea003c4671b2fc455320ecf6d4a43b0a3c1878a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f288e338be206713d79b29144c27fca4503c39b

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a81b44d1df1f07f00c0dcc0a0b3d2fa24a46289e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8d67367ab33604326cc37ab44fd1801bf5691ba