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CVE-2021-47585
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CVE-2021-47585
MITRE ATT&CK
Collection
Command and Control
Credential Access
Defense Evasion
Discovery
Execution
Exfiltration
Impact
Initial Access
Lateral Movement
Persistence
Privilege Escalation
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix memory leak in __add_inode_ref()
Line 1169 (#3) allocates a memory chunk for victim_name by kmalloc(),
but when the function returns in line 1184 (#4) victim_name allocated
by line 1169 (#3) is not freed, which will lead to a memory leak.
There is a similar snippet of code in this function as allocating a memory
chunk for victim_name in line 1104 (#1) as well as releasing the memory
in line 1116 (#2).
We should kfree() victim_name when the return value of backref_in_log()
is less than zero and before the function returns in line 1184 (#4).
1057 static inline int __add_inode_ref(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
1058 struct btrfs_root *root,
1059 struct btrfs_path *path,
1060 struct btrfs_root *log_root,
1061 struct btrfs_inode *dir,
1062 struct btrfs_inode *inode,
1063 u64 inode_objectid, u64 parent_objectid,
1064 u64 ref_index, char *name, int namelen,
1065 int *search_done)
1066 {
1104 victim_name = kmalloc(victim_name_len, GFP_NOFS);
// #1: kmalloc (victim_name-1)
1105 if (!victim_name)
1106 return -ENOMEM;
1112 ret = backref_in_log(log_root, &search_key,
1113 parent_objectid, victim_name,
1114 victim_name_len);
1115 if (ret < 0) {
1116 kfree(victim_name); // #2: kfree (victim_name-1)
1117 return ret;
1118 } else if (!ret) {
1169 victim_name = kmalloc(victim_name_len, GFP_NOFS);
// #3: kmalloc (victim_name-2)
1170 if (!victim_name)
1171 return -ENOMEM;
1180 ret = backref_in_log(log_root, &search_key,
1181 parent_objectid, victim_name,
1182 victim_name_len);
1183 if (ret < 0) {
1184 return ret; // #4: missing kfree (victim_name-2)
1185 } else if (!ret) {
1241 return 0;
1242 }
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