CVE-2022-49210
MIPS: pgalloc: fix memory leak caused by pgd_free()
Published:
2/26/2025
Last updated:
10/1/2025
Reserved:
2/26/2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
MIPS: pgalloc: fix memory leak caused by pgd_free()
pgd page is freed by generic implementation pgd_free() since commit
f9cb654cb550 ("asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pgd_free()"),
however, there are scenarios that the system uses more than one page as
the pgd table, in such cases the generic implementation pgd_free() won't
be applicable anymore. For example, when PAGE_SIZE_4KB is enabled and
MIPS_VA_BITS_48 is not enabled in a 64bit system, the macro "PGD_ORDER"
will be set as "1", which will cause allocating two pages as the pgd
table. Well, at the same time, the generic implementation pgd_free()
just free one pgd page, which will result in the memory leak.
The memory leak can be easily detected by executing shell command:
"while true; do ls > /dev/null; grep MemFree /proc/meminfo; done"
CNA assigner:
Linux (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
Requested by:
n/a
Products affected (4)
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| Linux |
Linux
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| Linux |
Linux
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< 5e161a8826b63c0b8b43e4a7fad1f956780f42ab
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| Linux |
Linux
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n/a
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| Linux |
Linux
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n/a
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