CVE ID : CVE-2024-56712

Published : Dec. 29, 2024, 9:15 a.m. | 1 hour, 3 minutes ago

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.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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