CVE-2022-49927: nfs4: Fix kmemleak when allocate slot failed

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-05-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-401

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfs4: Fix kmemleak when allocate slot failed If one of the slot allocate failed, should cleanup all the other allocated slots, otherwise, the allocated slots will leak: unreferenced object 0xffff8881115aa100 (size 64): comm ""mount.nfs"", pid 679, jiffies 4294744957 (age 115.037s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 cc 19 73 81 88 ff ff 00 a0 5a 11 81 88 ff ff ...s......Z..... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000007a4c434a>] nfs4_find_or_create_slot+0x8e/0x130 [<000000005472a39c>] nfs4_realloc_slot_table+0x23f/0x270 [<00000000cd8ca0eb>] nfs40_init_client+0x4a/0x90 [<00000000128486db>] nfs4_init_client+0xce/0x270 [<000000008d2cacad>] nfs4_set_client+0x1a2/0x2b0 [<000000000e593b52>] nfs4_create_server+0x300/0x5f0 [<00000000e4425dd2>] nfs4_try_get_tree+0x65/0x110 [<00000000d3a6176f>] vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0 [<0000000016b5ad4c>] path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0 [<00000000494cae71>] __x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0 [<000000005d56bdec>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<00000000687c9ae4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 3.12 before 4.9.333; from 4.10 before 4.14.299; from 4.15 before 4.19.265; from 4.20 before 5.4.224; from 5.5 before 5.10.154; from 5.11 before 5.15.78 — fixed in 4.14.299, 4.19.265, 4.9.333, 5.10.154, 5.15.78, 5.4.224

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 4.14.299, 4.19.265, 4.9.333, 5.10.154. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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