CVE-2022-50434

blk-mq: fix possible memleak when register 'hctx' failed

published October 1, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

blk-mq: fix possible memleak when register 'hctx' failed

There's issue as follows when do fault injection test:

unreferenced object 0xffff888132a9f400 (size 512):

comm "insmod", pid 308021, jiffies 4324277909 (age 509.733s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 f4 a9 32 81 88 ff ff ...........2....

08 f4 a9 32 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...2............

backtrace:

[<00000000e8952bb4>] kmalloc_node_trace+0x22/0xa0

[<00000000f9980e0f>] blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx+0x3f1/0x7e0

[<000000002e719efa>] blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs+0x1e6/0x230

[<000000004f1fda40>] blk_mq_init_allocated_queue+0x27e/0x910

[<00000000287123ec>] __blk_mq_alloc_disk+0x67/0xf0

[<00000000a2a34657>] 0xffffffffa2ad310f

[<00000000b173f718>] 0xffffffffa2af824a

[<0000000095a1dabb>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0

[<00000000f32fdf93>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320

[<00000000cbe8541e>] load_module+0x3006/0x3390

[<0000000069ed1bdb>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0

[<00000000a1a29ae8>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

[<000000009cd878b0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Fault injection context as follows:

kobject_add

blk_mq_register_hctx

blk_mq_sysfs_register

blk_register_queue

device_add_disk

null_add_dev.part.0 [null_blk]

As 'blk_mq_register_hctx' may already add some objects when failed halfway,

but there isn't do fallback, caller don't know which objects add failed.

To solve above issue just do fallback when add objects failed halfway in

'blk_mq_register_hctx'.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00184 · 7.6th percentile
Published
2025-10-01T11:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 11:42Z
    blk-mq: fix possible memleak when register 'hctx' failed
    cvelistv5