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CVE-2022-49277

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CVE-2022-49277

Published: Feb 26, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_mount_fs If jffs2_build_filesystem() in jffs2_do_mount_fs() returns an error, we can observe the following kmemleak report: -------------------------------------------- unreferenced object 0xffff88811b25a640 (size 64): comm "mount", pid 691, jiffies 4294957728 (age 71.952s) 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: [<ffffffffa493be24>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x584/0x880 [<ffffffffa5423a06>] jffs2_sum_init+0x86/0x130 [<ffffffffa5400e58>] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x798/0xac0 [<ffffffffa540acf3>] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30 [<ffffffffa540c00a>] jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0 [...] unreferenced object 0xffff88812c760000 (size 65536): comm "mount", pid 691, jiffies 4294957728 (age 71.952s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ backtrace: [<ffffffffa493a449>] __kmalloc+0x6b9/0x910 [<ffffffffa5423a57>] jffs2_sum_init+0xd7/0x130 [<ffffffffa5400e58>] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x798/0xac0 [<ffffffffa540acf3>] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x383/0xc30 [<ffffffffa540c00a>] jffs2_fill_super+0x2ea/0x4c0 [...] -------------------------------------------- This is because the resources allocated in jffs2_sum_init() are not released. Call jffs2_sum_exit() to release these resources to solve the problem.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 - < 2a9d8184458562e6bf2f40d0e677fc85e2dd3834
affected
e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 - < 9a0f6610c7daedd2eace430beeb08a8b7ac80699
affected
e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 - < dbe0d0521eaa6a3d235517319266c539bb5c5112
affected
e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 - < 0978e9af4559a171ac7a74a1b3ef21804b0a0fa9
affected
e631ddba588783edd521c5a89f7b2902772fb691 - < 607d3aab7349f18e0d9dba4100d09d16fe27caca

+4 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
2.6.15
unaffected
0 - < 2.6.15
unaffected
4.9.311 - <= 4.9.*
unaffected
4.14.276 - <= 4.14.*
unaffected
4.19.238 - <= 4.19.*

+6 more versions

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