CVE-2022-49803

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

netdevsim: Fix memory leak of nsimdev->facookie

kmemleak reports this issue:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881bac872d0 (size 8): comm "sh", pid 58603, jiffies 4481524462 (age 68.065s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 04 00 00 00 de ad be ef ........ backtrace: [<00000000c80b8577>] _kmalloc+0x49/0x150 [<000000005292b8c6>] nsimdevtrapfacookiewrite+0xc1/0x210 [netdevsim] [<0000000093d78e77>] fullproxywrite+0xf3/0x180 [<000000005a662c16>] vfswrite+0x1c5/0xaf0 [<000000007aabf84a>] ksyswrite+0xed/0x1c0 [<000000005f1d2e47>] dosyscall64+0x3b/0x90 [<000000006001c6ec>] entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd

The issue occurs in the following scenarios:

nsimdevtrapfacookiewrite() kmalloc() facookie nsimdev->facookie = facookie .. nsimdrv_remove()

The facookie allocked in nsimdevtrapfacookiewrite() is not freed. To fix, add kfree(nsimdev->facookie) to nsimdrvremove().