In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()
kmemleak reported a sequence of memory leaks, and show them as following:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881575f8400 (size 1024): comm "mount", pid 19625, jiffies 4297119604 (age 20.383s) 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: [<ffffffff8176cecd>] _kmalloc+0x4d/0x150 [<ffffffffa0406b2b>] ubifsmount+0x307b/0x7170 [ubifs] [<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacygettree+0xed/0x1d0 [<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfsgettree+0x7d/0x230 [<ffffffff819b2bd4>] pathmount+0xdd4/0x17b0 [<ffffffff819b37aa>] _x64sysmount+0x1fa/0x270 [<ffffffff83c14295>] dosyscall64+0x35/0x80 [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x46/0xb0
unreferenced object 0xffff8881798a6e00 (size 512): comm "mount", pid 19677, jiffies 4297121912 (age 37.816s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk backtrace: [<ffffffff8176cecd>] _kmalloc+0x4d/0x150 [<ffffffffa0418342>] ubifswbufinit+0x52/0x480 [ubifs] [<ffffffffa0406ca5>] ubifsmount+0x31f5/0x7170 [ubifs] [<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacygettree+0xed/0x1d0 [<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfsgettree+0x7d/0x230 [<ffffffff819b2bd4>] pathmount+0xdd4/0x17b0 [<ffffffff819b37aa>] _x64sysmount+0x1fa/0x270 [<ffffffff83c14295>] dosyscall64+0x35/0x80 [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x46/0xb0
The problem is that the ubifswbufinit() returns an error in the loop which in the alloc_wbufs(), then the wbuf->buf and wbuf->inodes that were successfully alloced before are not freed.
Fix it by adding error hanging path in allocwbufs() which frees the memory alloced before when ubifswbuf_init() returns an error.