Vulnerability CVE-2021-47249

Vulnerability CVE-2021-47249

Published: 2024-05-21

Description:

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

net: rds: fix memory leak in rds_recvmsg

Syzbot reported memory leak in rds. The problem
was in unputted refcount in case of error.

int rds_recvmsg(struct socket sock, struct msghdr msg, size_t size,
int msg_flags)
{
...

if (!rds_next_incoming(rs, &inc)) {
...
}

After this "if" inc refcount incremented and

if (rds_cmsg_recv(inc, msg, rs)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
...
out:
return ret;
}

in case of rds_cmsg_recv() fail the refcount won't be
decremented. And it's easy to see from ftrace log, that
rds_inc_addref() don't have rds_inc_put() pair in
rds_recvmsg() after rds_cmsg_recv()

1) | rds_recvmsg() {
1) 3.721 us | rds_inc_addref();
1) 3.853 us | rds_message_inc_copy_to_user();
1) + 10.395 us | rds_cmsg_recv();
1) + 34.260 us | }

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c3ec88b03e9e4ca117dcdc4204fd3edcd02084f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/423c6939758fb3b9cf5abbd1e7792068a5c4ae8c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f79bc8ae81c05eb112a53f981cb2c244ee50d02

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06b7cb0194bd1ede0dd27f3a946e7c0279fba44a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2038cd15eacdf7512755c27686822e0052eb9042

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5946fbf48355f5a8caeff72580c7658da5966b86

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b25b60d076164edb3025e85aabd2cf50a5215b91

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49bfcbfd989a8f1f23e705759a6bb099de2cff9f

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