scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate… (CVE-2023-53078)

Summary

scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate()

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

scsi: scsi_dh_alua: Fix memleak for 'qdata' in alua_activate()

If alua_rtpg_queue() failed from alua_activate(), then 'qdata' is not
freed, which will cause following memleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff88810b2c6980 (size 32):
comm "kworker/u16:2", pid 635322, jiffies 4355801099 (age 1216426.076s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
40 39 24 c1 ff ff ff ff 00 f8 ea 0a 81 88 ff ff @9$.............
backtrace:
[<0000000098f3a26d>] alua_activate+0xb0/0x320
[<000000003b529641>] scsi_dh_activate+0xb2/0x140
[<000000007b296db3>] activate_path_work+0xc6/0xe0 [dm_multipath]
[<000000007adc9ace>] process_one_work+0x3c5/0x730
[<00000000c457a985>] worker_thread+0x93/0x650
[<00000000cb80e628>] kthread+0x1ba/0x210
[<00000000a1e61077>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

Fix the problem by freeing 'qdata' in error path.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Affected packages

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.11.0"},{"fixed":"4.14.312"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.15.0"},{"fixed":"4.19.280"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.20.0"},{"fixed":"5.4.240"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.5.0"},{"fixed":"5.10.177"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.11.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.105"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.22"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.2.9"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53078 linux Fixed in: 5.10.178-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53078 linux-azure

Summary

Original description

Affected packages

Fix status by distribution

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