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      <title>CVE-2022-49648 — tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem</title>
      <link>https://cve.radiocsirt.org/vuln/cve-2022-49648</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This reverts commit 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As commit 46bbe5c671e0 (&amp;#34;tracing: fix double free&amp;#34;) said, the
&amp;#34;double free&amp;#34; problem reported by clang static analyzer is:
  &amp;gt; In parse_var_defs() if there is a problem allocating
  &amp;gt; var_defs.expr, the earlier var_defs.name is freed.
  &amp;gt; This free is duplicated by free_var_defs() which frees
  &amp;gt; the rest of the list.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, if there is a problem allocating N-th var_defs.expr:
  + in parse_var_defs(), the freed &amp;#39;earlier var_defs.name&amp;#39; is
    actually the N-th var_defs.name;
  + then in free_var_defs(), the names from 0th to (N-1)-th are freed;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IF ALLOCATING PROBLEM HAPPENED HERE!!! -+
                                                                 \
                                                                  |
          0th           1th                 (N-1)-th      N-th    V
          +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+-----------
var_defs: | name | expr | name | expr | ... | name | expr | name | ///
          +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+-----------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These two frees don&amp;#39;t act on same name, so there was no &amp;#34;double free&amp;#34;
problem before. Conversely, after that commit, we get a &amp;#34;memory leak&amp;#34;
problem because the above &amp;#34;N-th var_defs.name&amp;#34; is not freed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and inject a fault at where the N-th
var_defs.expr a…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;tracing/histograms: Fix memory leak problem&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This reverts commit 46bbe5c671e06f070428b9be142cc4ee5cedebac.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As commit 46bbe5c671e0 (&amp;#34;tracing: fix double free&amp;#34;) said, the
&amp;#34;double free&amp;#34; problem reported by clang static analyzer is:
  &amp;gt; In parse_var_defs() if there is a problem allocating
  &amp;gt; var_defs.expr, the earlier var_defs.name is freed.
  &amp;gt; This free is duplicated by free_var_defs() which frees
  &amp;gt; the rest of the list.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, if there is a problem allocating N-th var_defs.expr:
  + in parse_var_defs(), the freed &amp;#39;earlier var_defs.name&amp;#39; is
    actually the N-th var_defs.name;
  + then in free_var_defs(), the names from 0th to (N-1)-th are freed;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IF ALLOCATING PROBLEM HAPPENED HERE!!! -+
                                                                 \
                                                                  |
          0th           1th                 (N-1)-th      N-th    V
          +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+-----------
var_defs: | name | expr | name | expr | ... | name | expr | name | ///
          +-------------+-------------+-----+-------------+-----------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These two frees don&amp;#39;t act on same name, so there was no &amp;#34;double free&amp;#34;
problem before. Conversely, after that commit, we get a &amp;#34;memory leak&amp;#34;
problem because the above &amp;#34;N-th var_defs.name&amp;#34; is not freed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and inject a fault at where the N-th
var_defs.expr a…&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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