CVE-2021-47472 Information

May 23, 2024 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register

Once device_register() failed we should call put_device() to decrement reference count for cleanup. Or it will cause memory leak.

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888114032e00 (size 256): comm \kworker/1:3\ pid 2960 jiffies 4294943572 (age 15.920s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 2e 03 14 81 88 ff ff ……………. 08 2e 03 14 81 88 ff ff 90 76 65 82 ff ff ff ff ………ve….. backtrace: [] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:591 [inline] [] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline] [] device_private_init drivers/base/core.c:3203 [inline] [] device_add+0x89b/0xdf0 drivers/base/core.c:3253 [] __mdiobus_register+0xc3/0x450 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:537 [] __devm_mdiobus_register+0x75/0xf0 drivers/net/phy/mdio_devres.c:87 [] ax88772_init_mdio drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c:676 [inline] [] ax88772_bind+0x330/0x480 drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c:786 [] usbnet_probe+0x3ff/0xdf0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1745 [] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396 [] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:517 [inline] [] really_probe.part.0+0xe7/0x380 drivers/base/dd.c:596 [] really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:558 [inline] [] __driver_probe_device+0x10c/0x1e0 drivers/base/dd.c:751 [] driver_probe_device+0x2a/0x120 drivers/base/dd.c:781 [] __device_attach_driver+0xf6/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898 [] bus_for_each_drv+0xb7/0x100 drivers/base/bus.c:427 [] __device_attach+0x122/0x260 drivers/base/dd.c:969 [] bus_probe_device+0xc6/0xe0 drivers/base/bus.c:487 [] device_add+0x5fb/0xdf0 drivers/base/core.c:3359 [] usb_set_configuration+0x9d9/0xb90 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2170 [] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8c/0xc0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888116f06900 (size 32): comm \kworker/0:2\ pid 2670 jiffies 4294944448 (age 7.160s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 75 73 62 2d 30 30 31 3a 30 30 33 00 00 00 00 00 usb-001:003….. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. backtrace: [] kstrdup+0x36/0x70 mm/util.c:60 [] kstrdup_const+0x53/0x80 mm/util.c:83 [] kvasprintf_const+0xc2/0x110 lib/kasprintf.c:48 [] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x3b/0xe0 lib/kobject.c:289 [] dev_set_name+0x63/0x90 drivers/base/core.c:3147 [] __mdiobus_register+0xbb/0x450 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:535 [] __devm_mdiobus_register+0x75/0xf0 drivers/net/phy/mdio_devres.c:87 [] ax88772_init_mdio drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c:676 [inline] [] ax88772_bind+0x330/0x480 drivers/net/usb/asix_devices.c:786 [] usbnet_probe+0x3ff/0xdf0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1745 [] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396 [] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:517 [inline] [] really_probe.part.0+0xe7/0x380 drivers/base/dd.c:596 [] really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:558 [inline] [] __driver_probe_device+0x10c/0x1e0 drivers/base/dd.c:751 [] driver_probe_device+0x2a/0x120 drivers/base/dd.c:781 [] __device_attach_driver+0xf6/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898 [] bus_for_each

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