Vulnerability · Published May 1, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2022-49902block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk failure

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity memory leak in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: Fix possible memory leak for rq_wb on add_disk failure kmemleak reported memory leaks in device_add_disk(): kmemleak: 3 new suspected memory leaks unreferenced object 0xffff88800f420800 (size 512): comm "modprobe", pid 4275, jiffies 4295639067 (age 223.512s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 04 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 e1 f5 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000d3662699>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60 [<00000000edc7aadc>] wbt_init+0x50/0x6f0 [<0000000069601d16>] wbt_enable_default+0x157/0x1c0 [<0000000028fc393f>] blk_register_queue+0x2a4/0x420 [<000000007345a042>] device_add_disk+0x6fd/0xe40 [<0000000060e6aab0>] nbd_dev_add+0x828/0xbf0 [nbd] ... It is because the memory allocated in wbt_enable_default() is not released in device_add_disk() error path. Normally, these memory are freed in: del_gendisk() rq_qos_exit() rqos->ops->exit(rqos); wbt_exit() So rq_qos_exit() is called to free the rq_wb memory for wbt_init(). However in the error path of device_add_disk(), only blk_unregister_queue() is called and make rq_wb memory leaked. Add rq_qos_exit() to the error path to fix it.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.0.8-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49902
Debian:13linux6.0.8-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49902
Debian:14linux6.0.8-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-60.66UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1030.34UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1033.40UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1033.40.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1029.36UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1027.32UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1015.19UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1025.28UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1025.30UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1028.33UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-60.66UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1017.17UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1029.35UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1024.26UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49902

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 83cbce9574462c6b4eed6797bdaf18fae6859ab3 – before 4e68c5da60cd79950bd56287ae80b39d6261f99583cbce9574462c6b4eed6797bdaf18fae6859ab3 – before 528677d3b4af985445bd4ac667485ded1ed1122083cbce9574462c6b4eed6797bdaf18fae6859ab3 – before fa81cbafbf5764ad5053512152345fab37a1fe18
Linux Linux 5.15

Weakness: CWE-401 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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