FKIE_CVE-2022-50639

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-09 01:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:23
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io-wq: Fix memory leak in worker creation If the CPU mask allocation for a node fails, then the memory allocated for the 'io_wqe' struct of the current node doesn't get freed on the error handling path, since it has not yet been added to the 'wqes' array. This was spotted when fuzzing v6.1-rc1 with Syzkaller: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880093d5000 (size 1024): comm "syz-executor.2", pid 7701, jiffies 4295048595 (age 13.900s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000cb463369>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x18e/0x720 [<00000000147a3f9c>] kmalloc_node_trace+0x2a/0x130 [<000000004e107011>] io_wq_create+0x7b9/0xdc0 [<00000000c38b2018>] io_uring_alloc_task_context+0x31e/0x59d [<00000000867399da>] __io_uring_add_tctx_node.cold+0x19/0x1ba [<000000007e0e7a79>] io_uring_setup.cold+0x1b80/0x1dce [<00000000b545e9f6>] __x64_sys_io_uring_setup+0x5d/0x80 [<000000008a8a7508>] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x90 [<000000004ac08bec>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/996d3efeb091c503afd3ee6b5e20eabf446fd955
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6e2c54be37d5eb4f6666e6aa59cd0581c7ffc3c
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed981911a7c90a604f4a2bee908ab07e3b786aca
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  "affected": [
    {
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "product": "Linux",
          "programFiles": [
            "io_uring/io-wq.c"
          ],
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    }
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  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio-wq: Fix memory leak in worker creation\n\nIf the CPU mask allocation for a node fails, then the memory allocated for\nthe \u0027io_wqe\u0027 struct of the current node doesn\u0027t get freed on the error\nhandling path, since it has not yet been added to the \u0027wqes\u0027 array.\n\nThis was spotted when fuzzing v6.1-rc1 with Syzkaller:\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff8880093d5000 (size 1024):\n  comm \"syz-executor.2\", pid 7701, jiffies 4295048595 (age 13.900s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c00000000cb463369\u003e] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x18e/0x720\n    [\u003c00000000147a3f9c\u003e] kmalloc_node_trace+0x2a/0x130\n    [\u003c000000004e107011\u003e] io_wq_create+0x7b9/0xdc0\n    [\u003c00000000c38b2018\u003e] io_uring_alloc_task_context+0x31e/0x59d\n    [\u003c00000000867399da\u003e] __io_uring_add_tctx_node.cold+0x19/0x1ba\n    [\u003c000000007e0e7a79\u003e] io_uring_setup.cold+0x1b80/0x1dce\n    [\u003c00000000b545e9f6\u003e] __x64_sys_io_uring_setup+0x5d/0x80\n    [\u003c000000008a8a7508\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x90\n    [\u003c000000004ac08bec\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd"
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2022-50639",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T05:23:54.870",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-12-09T01:16:46.280",
  "references": [
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      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
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  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred"
}



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