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CVE-2022-50269 — drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()

Affected: Linux

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

drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init()

A memory leak was reported after the vkms module install failed.

unreferenced object 0xffff88810bc28520 (size 16): comm "modprobe", pid 9662, jiffies 4298009455 (age 42.590s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 01 01 00 64 81 88 ff ff 00 00 dc 0a 81 88 ff ff ...d............ backtrace: [<00000000e7561ff8>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x60 [<000000000b1954a0>] 0xffffffffc45200a9 [<00000000abbf1da0>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0 [<000000001505ee87>] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680 [<00000000958079ad>] load_module+0x6249/0x7110 [<00000000117e4696>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200 [<00000000f74b12d2>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<000000008fc6fcde>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The reason is that the vkms_init() returns without checking the return value of vkms_create(), and if the vkms_create() failed, the config allocated at the beginning of vkms_init() is leaked.

vkms_init() config = kmalloc(...) # config allocated ... return vkms_create() # vkms_create failed and config is leaked

Fix this problem by checking return value of vkms_create() and free the config if error happened.

RHSA-2023:6583 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

kernel: seg6: fix the iif in the IPv6 socket control block Kernel: race when faulting a device private page in memory manager kernel: use-after-free in l1oip timer handlers kernel: Rate limit overflow messages in r8152 in intr_callback kernel: vmwgfx: use-after-free in vmw_cmd_res_check kernel: vmwgfx: use-after-free in vmw_execbuf_tie_context hw: Intel: Gather Data Sampling (GDS) side channel vulnerability kernel: Information leak in l2cap_parse_conf_req in net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c kernel: perf: Fix perf_pending_task() UaF kernel: gpiolib: fix memory leak in gpiochip_setup_dev() kernel: memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control() kernel: mm/khugepaged: invoke MMU notifiers in shmem/file collapse paths kernel: char: tpm: Protect tpm_pm_suspend with locks kernel: ixgbevf: Fix resource leak in ixgbevf_init_module() kernel: dax: make sure inodes are flushed before destroy cache kernel: watch_queue: Actually free the watch kernel: watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup kernel: rtc: pl031: fix rtc features null pointer dereference kernel: tpm: fix reference counting for struct tpm_chip kernel: NFSv4: Don't hold the layoutget locks across multiple RPC calls kernel: xprtrdma: treat all calls not a bcall when bc_serv is NULL kernel: net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_init() kernel: af_unix: Fix a data-race in unix_dgram_peer_wake_me(). kernel: regulator: scmi: Fix refcount leak in scmi_regulator_probe kernel: mm/mempolicy: fix uninit-v…

RHSA-2025:13961 — Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

kernel: drm/vkms: Fix memory leak in vkms_init() kernel: drm/vkms: Fix null-ptr-deref in vkms_release() kernel: drm/vkms: Fix use after free and double free on init error kernel: net_sched: ets: Fix double list add in class with netem as child qdisc kernel: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix use-after-free in vhci_flush()