FKIE_CVE-2021-47467
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-05-22 07:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:17
Severity
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kunit: fix reference count leak in kfree_at_end
The reference counting issue happens in the normal path of
kfree_at_end(). When kunit_alloc_and_get_resource() is invoked, the
function forgets to handle the returned resource object, whose refcount
increased inside, causing a refcount leak.
Fix this issue by calling kunit_alloc_resource() instead of
kunit_alloc_and_get_resource().
Fixed the following when applying:
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
+ kunit_alloc_resource(test, NULL, kfree_res_free, GFP_KERNEL,
(void *)to_free);
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.15 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.15 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.15 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.15 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.15 |
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