CVE-2022-48659

mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails

published April 28, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails

In create_unique_id(), kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL) can fail due to

out-of-memory, if it fails, return errno correctly rather than

triggering panic via BUG_ON();

kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:5893!

Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Call trace:

sysfs_slab_add+0x258/0x260 mm/slub.c:5973

__kmem_cache_create+0x60/0x118 mm/slub.c:4899

create_cache mm/slab_common.c:229 [inline]

kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x19c/0x31c mm/slab_common.c:335

kmem_cache_create+0x1c/0x28 mm/slab_common.c:390

f2fs_kmem_cache_create fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2766 [inline]

f2fs_init_xattr_caches+0x78/0xb4 fs/f2fs/xattr.c:808

f2fs_fill_super+0x1050/0x1e0c fs/f2fs/super.c:4149

mount_bdev+0x1b8/0x210 fs/super.c:1400

f2fs_mount+0x44/0x58 fs/f2fs/super.c:4512

legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x74 fs/fs_context.c:610

vfs_get_tree+0x40/0x140 fs/super.c:1530

do_new_mount+0x1dc/0x4e4 fs/namespace.c:3040

path_mount+0x358/0x914 fs/namespace.c:3370

do_mount fs/namespace.c:3383 [inline]

__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3591 [inline]

__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3568 [inline]

__arm64_sys_mount+0x2f8/0x408 fs/namespace.c:3568

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00241 · 14.4th percentile
Published
2024-04-28T13:01Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 APR 13:01Z
    mm/slub: fix to return errno if kmalloc() fails
    cvelistv5