GHSA-M6C5-JHRW-6658
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-01 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-07 18:30In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/x86/amd/uncore: Fix memory leak for events array
When a CPU comes online, the per-CPU NB and LLC uncore contexts are freed but not the events array within the context structure. This causes a memory leak as identified by the kmemleak detector.
[...] unreferenced object 0xffff8c5944b8e320 (size 32): comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294670387 (age 151.072s) 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: [<000000000759fb79>] amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare+0xaf/0x230 [<00000000ddc9e126>] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2cf/0x470 [<0000000093e727d4>] cpuhp_issue_call+0x14d/0x170 [<0000000045464d54>] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x11e/0x330 [<0000000069f67cbd>] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x6b/0x110 [<0000000015365e0f>] amd_uncore_init+0x260/0x321 [<00000000089152d2>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x1f0 [<000000002d0bd18d>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1ca/0x212 [<0000000030be8dde>] kernel_init+0x11/0x120 [<0000000059709e59>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 unreferenced object 0xffff8c5944b8dd40 (size 64): comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294670387 (age 151.072s) 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: [<00000000306efe8b>] amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare+0x183/0x230 [<00000000ddc9e126>] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2cf/0x470 [<0000000093e727d4>] cpuhp_issue_call+0x14d/0x170 [<0000000045464d54>] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x11e/0x330 [<0000000069f67cbd>] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x6b/0x110 [<0000000015365e0f>] amd_uncore_init+0x260/0x321 [<00000000089152d2>] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x1f0 [<000000002d0bd18d>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1ca/0x212 [<0000000030be8dde>] kernel_init+0x11/0x120 [<0000000059709e59>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [...]
Fix the problem by freeing the events array before freeing the uncore context.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-49784"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-401"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-05-01T15:16:01Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/x86/amd/uncore: Fix memory leak for events array\n\nWhen a CPU comes online, the per-CPU NB and LLC uncore contexts are\nfreed but not the events array within the context structure. This\ncauses a memory leak as identified by the kmemleak detector.\n\n [...]\n unreferenced object 0xffff8c5944b8e320 (size 32):\n comm \"swapper/0\", pid 1, jiffies 4294670387 (age 151.072s)\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 [\u003c000000000759fb79\u003e] amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare+0xaf/0x230\n [\u003c00000000ddc9e126\u003e] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2cf/0x470\n [\u003c0000000093e727d4\u003e] cpuhp_issue_call+0x14d/0x170\n [\u003c0000000045464d54\u003e] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x11e/0x330\n [\u003c0000000069f67cbd\u003e] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x6b/0x110\n [\u003c0000000015365e0f\u003e] amd_uncore_init+0x260/0x321\n [\u003c00000000089152d2\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x1f0\n [\u003c000000002d0bd18d\u003e] kernel_init_freeable+0x1ca/0x212\n [\u003c0000000030be8dde\u003e] kernel_init+0x11/0x120\n [\u003c0000000059709e59\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n unreferenced object 0xffff8c5944b8dd40 (size 64):\n comm \"swapper/0\", pid 1, jiffies 4294670387 (age 151.072s)\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 [\u003c00000000306efe8b\u003e] amd_uncore_cpu_up_prepare+0x183/0x230\n [\u003c00000000ddc9e126\u003e] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x2cf/0x470\n [\u003c0000000093e727d4\u003e] cpuhp_issue_call+0x14d/0x170\n [\u003c0000000045464d54\u003e] __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x11e/0x330\n [\u003c0000000069f67cbd\u003e] __cpuhp_setup_state+0x6b/0x110\n [\u003c0000000015365e0f\u003e] amd_uncore_init+0x260/0x321\n [\u003c00000000089152d2\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x3f/0x1f0\n [\u003c000000002d0bd18d\u003e] kernel_init_freeable+0x1ca/0x212\n [\u003c0000000030be8dde\u003e] kernel_init+0x11/0x120\n [\u003c0000000059709e59\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n [...]\n\nFix the problem by freeing the events array before freeing the uncore\ncontext.",
"id": "GHSA-m6c5-jhrw-6658",
"modified": "2025-11-07T18:30:25Z",
"published": "2025-05-01T15:31:46Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49784"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdfe34597139cfcecd47a2eb97fea44d77157491"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f75be9885d49e3717de962345c4572ddab52b178"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
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