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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-56712

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 12/29/2024 4:15:06 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

udmabuf: fix memory leak on last export_udmabuf() error path

In export_udmabuf(), if dma_buf_fd() fails because the FD table is full, a
dma_buf owning the udmabuf has already been created; but the error handling
in udmabuf_create() will tear down the udmabuf without doing anything about
the containing dma_buf.

This leaves a dma_buf in memory that contains a dangling pointer; though
that doesn't seem to lead to anything bad except a memory leak.

Fix it by moving the dma_buf_fd() call out of export_udmabuf() so that we
can give it different error handling.

Note that the shape of this code changed a lot in commit 5e72b2b41a21
("udmabuf: convert udmabuf driver to use folios"); but the memory leak
seems to have existed since the introduction of udmabuf.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9fc8428d4255c2128da9c4d5cd92e554d0150cf
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f49856f525acd5bef52ae28b7da2e001bbe7439e