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CVE-2021-47523

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CVE-2021-47523

Published: May 24, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/hfi1: Fix leak of rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr This buffer is currently allocated in hfi1_init(): if (reinit) ret = init_after_reset(dd); else ret = loadtime_init(dd); if (ret) goto done; /* allocate dummy tail memory for all receive contexts */ dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(&dd->pcidev->dev, sizeof(u64), &dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_dma, GFP_KERNEL); if (!dd->rcvhdrtail_dummy_kvaddr) { dd_dev_err(dd, "cannot allocate dummy tail memory\n"); ret = -ENOMEM; goto done; } The reinit triggered path will overwrite the old allocation and leak it. Fix by moving the allocation to hfi1_alloc_devdata() and the deallocation to hfi1_free_devdata().

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
46b010d3eeb8eb29c740c4ef09c666485f5c07e6 - < 2c08271f4ed0e24633b3f81ceff61052b9d45efc
affected
46b010d3eeb8eb29c740c4ef09c666485f5c07e6 - < 834d0fb978643eaf09da425de197cc16a7c2761b
affected
46b010d3eeb8eb29c740c4ef09c666485f5c07e6 - < 60a8b5a1611b4a26de4839ab9c1fc2a9cf3e17c1

Linux

Linux

affected
4.5
unaffected
0 - < 4.5
unaffected
5.10.85 - <= 5.10.*
unaffected
5.15.8 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
5.16 - <= *

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