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

dm cache metadata: fix memory leak on metadata abort retry

When failing to acquire the root_lock in dm_cache_metadata_abort because
the block_manager is read-only, the temporary block_manager created
outside the root_lock is not properly released, causing a memory leak.

Reproduce steps:

This can be reproduced by reloading a new table while the metadata
is read-only. While the second call to dm_cache_metadata_abort is
caused by lack of support for table preload in dm-cache, mentioned
in commit 9b1cc9f251af ("dm cache: share cache-metadata object across
inactive and active DM tables"), it exposes the memory leak in
dm_cache_metadata_abort when the function is called multiple times.
Specifically, dm-cache fails to sync the new cache object's mode during
preresume, creating the reproducer condition.

This issue could also occur through concurrent metadata_operation_failed
calls due to races in cache mode updates, but the table preload scenario
below provides a reliable reproducer.

1. Create a cache device with some faulty trailing metadata blocks

dmsetup create cmeta <<EOF
0 200 linear /dev/sdc 0
200 7992 error
EOF
dmsetup create cdata --table "0 131072 linear /dev/sdc 8192"
dmsetup create corig --table "0 262144 linear /dev/sdc 262144"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cmeta bs=4k count=1 oflag=direct
dmsetup create cache --table "0 131072 cache /dev/mapper/cmeta \
/dev/mapper/cdata /dev/mapper/corig 128 1 writethrough smq 0"

2. Suspend and resume the cache to start a new metadata transaction and
   trigger metadata io errors on the next metadata commit.

dmsetup suspend cache
dmsetup resume cache

3. Write to the cache device to update metadata

fio --filename=/dev/mapper/cache --name test --rw=randwrite --bs=4k \
--randrepeat=0 --direct=1 --size 64k

4. Preload the same table

dmsetup reload cache --table "$(dmsetup table cache)"

5. Resume the new table. This triggers the memory leak.

dmsetup suspend cache
dmsetup resume cache

kmemleak logs:

<snip>
unreferenced object 0xffff8880080c2010 (size 16):
  comm "dmsetup", pid 132, jiffies 4294982580
  hex dump (first 16 bytes):
    00 38 b9 07 80 88 ff ff 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5 ...
  backtrace (crc 3118f31c):
    kmemleak_alloc+0x28/0x40
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3d9/0x510
    dm_block_manager_create+0x51/0x140
    dm_cache_metadata_abort+0x85/0x320
    metadata_operation_failed+0x103/0x1e0
    cache_preresume+0xacd/0xe70
    dm_table_resume_targets+0xd3/0x320
    __dm_resume+0x1b/0xf0
    dm_resume+0x127/0x170
<snip>

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/044ca491d4086dc5bf233e9fcb71db52df32f633

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14f60e957f34f95a626caec76a8fae88cf4c397f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15c30997dca681f90dbf2d45ee629c1828bf0c0d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/322a3b70368d49e39591fe9fc6c07d262128b05f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4311ca59a1891d33c4c8b7946f98c34f167fe833

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b97cc7a42905755c56bbddc33aa8b792205caee

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0bd35535bdb6f58505f3a30ee5793986943997a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1a79620c419a0af1911f99c873014b30740e303

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