CVE-2022-49927 – Linux NFS kmemleak Vulnerability

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

nfs4: Fix kmemleak when allocate slot failed

If one of the slot allocate failed, should cleanup all the other
allocated slots, otherwise, the allocated slots will leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881115aa100 (size 64):
comm “”mount.nfs””, pid 679, jiffies 4294744957 (age 115.037s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 cc 19 73 81 88 ff ff 00 a0 5a 11 81 88 ff ff …s……Z…..
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …………….
backtrace:
[] nfs4_find_or_create_slot+0x8e/0x130
[] nfs4_realloc_slot_table+0x23f/0x270
[] nfs40_init_client+0x4a/0x90
[] nfs4_init_client+0xce/0x270
[] nfs4_set_client+0x1a2/0x2b0
[] nfs4_create_server+0x300/0x5f0
[] nfs4_try_get_tree+0x65/0x110
[] vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0
[] path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0
[] __x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0
[] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0