CVE-2023-53441

bpf: cpumap: Fix memory leak in cpu_map_update_elem

Medium · published September 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

bpf: cpumap: Fix memory leak in cpu_map_update_elem

Syzkaller reported a memory leak as follows:

BUG: memory leak

unreferenced object 0xff110001198ef748 (size 192):

comm "syz-executor.3", pid 17672, jiffies 4298118891 (age 9.906s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 4a 19 00 00 80 ad e3 e4 fe ff c0 00 ....J...........

00 b2 d3 0c 01 00 11 ff 28 f5 8e 19 01 00 11 ff ........(.......

backtrace:

[<ffffffffadd28087>] __cpu_map_entry_alloc+0xf7/0xb00

[<ffffffffadd28d8e>] cpu_map_update_elem+0x2fe/0x3d0

[<ffffffffadc6d0fd>] bpf_map_update_value.isra.0+0x2bd/0x520

[<ffffffffadc7349b>] map_update_elem+0x4cb/0x720

[<ffffffffadc7d983>] __se_sys_bpf+0x8c3/0xb90

[<ffffffffb029cc80>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40

[<ffffffffb0400099>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6

BUG: memory leak

unreferenced object 0xff110001198ef528 (size 192):

comm "syz-executor.3", pid 17672, jiffies 4298118891 (age 9.906s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<ffffffffadd281f0>] __cpu_map_entry_alloc+0x260/0xb00

[<ffffffffadd28d8e>] cpu_map_update_elem+0x2fe/0x3d0

[<ffffffffadc6d0fd>] bpf_map_update_value.isra.0+0x2bd/0x520

[<ffffffffadc7349b>] map_update_elem+0x4cb/0x720

[<ffffffffadc7d983>] __se_sys_bpf+0x8c3/0xb90

[<ffffffffb029cc80>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40

[<ffffffffb0400099>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6

BUG: memory leak

unreferenced object 0xff1100010fd93d68 (size 8):

comm "syz-executor.3", pid 17672, jiffies 4298118891 (age 9.906s)

hex dump (first 8 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

backtrace:

[<ffffffffade5db3e>] kvmalloc_node+0x11e/0x170

[<ffffffffadd28280>] __cpu_map_entry_alloc+0x2f0/0xb00

[<ffffffffadd28d8e>] cpu_map_update_elem+0x2fe/0x3d0

[<ffffffffadc6d0fd>] bpf_map_update_value.isra.0+0x2bd/0x520

[<ffffffffadc7349b>] map_update_elem+0x4cb/0x720

[<ffffffffadc7d983>] __se_sys_bpf+0x8c3/0xb90

[<ffffffffb029cc80>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40

[<ffffffffb0400099>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6

In the cpu_map_update_elem flow, when kthread_stop is called before

calling the threadfn of rcpu->kthread, since the KTHREAD_SHOULD_STOP bit

of kthread has been set by kthread_stop, the threadfn of rcpu->kthread

will never be executed, and rcpu->refcnt will never be 0, which will

lead to the allocated rcpu, rcpu->queue and rcpu->queue->queue cannot be

released.

Calling kthread_stop before executing kthread's threadfn will return

-EINTR. We can complete the release of memory resources in this state.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00148 · 3.7th percentile
Published
2025-09-18T16:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 16:04Z
    bpf: cpumap: Fix memory leak in cpu_map_update_elem
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