CVE-2021-47365

afs: Fix page leak

published May 21, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

afs: Fix page leak

There's a loop in afs_extend_writeback() that adds extra pages to a write

we want to make to improve the efficiency of the writeback by making it

larger. This loop stops, however, if we hit a page we can't write back

from immediately, but it doesn't get rid of the page ref we speculatively

acquired.

This was caused by the removal of the cleanup loop when the code switched

from using find_get_pages_contig() to xarray scanning as the latter only

gets a single page at a time, not a batch.

Fix this by putting the page on a ref on an early break from the loop.

Unfortunately, we can't just add that page to the pagevec we're employing

as we'll go through that and add those pages to the RPC call.

This was found by the generic/074 test. It leaks ~4GiB of RAM each time it

is run - which can be observed with "top".

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00208 · 10.4th percentile
Published
2024-05-21T15:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 MAY 15:03Z
    afs: Fix page leak
    cvelistv5