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CVE-2024-56712

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CVE-2024-56712

Published: Dec 29, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udmabuf: fix memory leak on last export_udmabuf() error path In export_udmabuf(), if dma_buf_fd() fails because the FD table is full, a dma_buf owning the udmabuf has already been created; but the error handling in udmabuf_create() will tear down the udmabuf without doing anything about the containing dma_buf. This leaves a dma_buf in memory that contains a dangling pointer; though that doesn't seem to lead to anything bad except a memory leak. Fix it by moving the dma_buf_fd() call out of export_udmabuf() so that we can give it different error handling. Note that the shape of this code changed a lot in commit 5e72b2b41a21 ("udmabuf: convert udmabuf driver to use folios"); but the memory leak seems to have existed since the introduction of udmabuf.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 - < c9fc8428d4255c2128da9c4d5cd92e554d0150cf
affected
fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 - < f49856f525acd5bef52ae28b7da2e001bbe7439e

Linux

Linux

affected
4.20
unaffected
0 - < 4.20
unaffected
6.12.7 - <= 6.12.*
unaffected
6.13 - <= *

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