Vulnerability CVE-2021-47116
Published: 2024-03-15

Description:
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_mb_init_backend on error path.

Fix a memory leak discovered by syzbot when a file system is corrupted
with an illegally large s_log_groups_per_flex.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2050c6e5b161e5e25ce3c420fef58b24fa388a49
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04fb2baa0b147f51db065a1b13a11954abe592d0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8867f4e3809050571c98de7a2d465aff5e4daf5
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