AZL-57743
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- https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-57743.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-57743
- Upstream
- Published
- 2024-07-29T15:15:11Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-01T05:19:11.902712Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- CVE-2024-41023 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/deadline: Fix task_struct reference leak
During the execution of the following stress test with linux-rt:
stress-ng --cyclic 30 --timeout 30 --minimize --quiet
kmemleak frequently reported a memory leak concerning the task_struct:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881305b8000 (size 16136): comm "stress-ng", pid 614, jiffies 4294883961 (age 286.412s) object hex dump (first 32 bytes): 02 40 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 ................ debug hex dump (first 16 bytes): 53 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 S............... backtrace: [<00000000046b6790>] duptaskstruct+0x30/0x540 [<00000000c5ca0f0b>] copyprocess+0x3d9/0x50e0 [<00000000ced59777>] kernelclone+0xb0/0x770 [<00000000a50befdc>] __dosysclone+0xb6/0xf0 [<000000001dbf2008>] dosyscall64+0x5d/0xf0 [<00000000552900ff>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x6e/0x76
The issue occurs in startdltimer(), which increments the taskstruct reference count and sets a timer. The timer callback, dltasktimer, is supposed to decrement the reference count upon expiration. However, if enqueuetask_dl() is called before the timer expires and cancels it, the reference count is not decremented, leading to the leak.
This patch fixes the reference leak by ensuring the task_struct reference count is properly decremented when the timer is canceled.
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