CVE-2024-56742 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vfio/mlx5: Fix an unwind issue in mlx5vf_add_migration_pages()

Fix an unwind issue in mlx5vf_add_migration_pages().

If a set of pages is allocated but fails to be added to the SG table they need to be freed to prevent a memory leak.

Any pages successfully added to the SG table will be freed as part of mlx5vf_free_data_buffer().

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22e87bf3f77c18f5982c19ffe2732ef0c7a25f16 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/769fe4ce444b646b0bf6ac308de80686c730c7df https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c44f1b2ddfa81c8d7f8e9b6bc76c427bc00e69d5