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      <title>CVE-2022-48846 — block: release rq qos structures for queue without disk</title>
      <link>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2022-48846</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;block: release rq qos structures for queue without disk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;blkcg_init_queue() may add rq qos structures to request queue, previously
blk_cleanup_queue() calls rq_qos_exit() to release them, but commit
8e141f9eb803 (&amp;#34;block: drain file system I/O on del_gendisk&amp;#34;)
moves rq_qos_exit() into del_gendisk(), so memory leak is caused
because queues may not have disk, such as un-present scsi luns, nvme
admin queue, ...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fixes the issue by adding rq_qos_exit() to blk_cleanup_queue() back.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BTW, v5.18 won&amp;#39;t need this patch any more since we move
blkcg_init_queue()/blkcg_exit_queue() into disk allocation/release
handler, and patches have been in for-5.18/block.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;block: release rq qos structures for queue without disk&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;blkcg_init_queue() may add rq qos structures to request queue, previously
blk_cleanup_queue() calls rq_qos_exit() to release them, but commit
8e141f9eb803 (&amp;#34;block: drain file system I/O on del_gendisk&amp;#34;)
moves rq_qos_exit() into del_gendisk(), so memory leak is caused
because queues may not have disk, such as un-present scsi luns, nvme
admin queue, ...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fixes the issue by adding rq_qos_exit() to blk_cleanup_queue() back.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BTW, v5.18 won&amp;#39;t need this patch any more since we move
blkcg_init_queue()/blkcg_exit_queue() into disk allocation/release
handler, and patches have been in for-5.18/block.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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