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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49901" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:46.974Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:08:54.911Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49901" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49901.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49901" title: "blk-mq: Fix kmemleak in blk_mq_init_allocated_queue" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-mq: Fix kmemleak in blk_mq_init_allocated_queue\n\nThere is a kmemleak caused by modprobe null_blk.ko\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881acb1f000 (size 1024):\n comm \"modprobe\", pid 836, jiffies 4294971190 (age 27.068s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........\n ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 53 99 9e ff ff ff ff .........S......\n backtrace:\n [\u003c000000004a10c249\u003e] kmalloc_node_trace+0x22/0x60\n [\u003c00000000648f7950\u003e] blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx+0x289/0x350\n [\u003c00000000af06de0e\u003e] blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs+0x2fe/0x3d0\n [\u003c00000000e00c1872\u003e] blk_mq_init_allocated_queue+0x48c/0x1440\n [\u003c00000000d16b4e68\u003e] __blk_mq_alloc_disk+0xc8/0x1c0\n [\u003c00000000d10c98c3\u003e] 0xffffffffc450d69d\n [\u003c00000000b9299f48\u003e] 0xffffffffc4538392\n [\u003c0000000061c39ed6\u003e] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4f0\n [\u003c00000000b389383b\u003e] do_init_module+0x1a4/0x680\n [\u003c0000000087cf3542\u003e] load_module+0x6249/0x7110\n [\u003c00000000beba61b8\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200\n [\u003c00000000fdcfff51\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n [\u003c000000003c0f1f71\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nThat is because q-\u003ema_ops is set to NULL before blk_release_queue is\ncalled.\n\nblk_mq_init_queue_data\n blk_mq_init_allocated_queue\n blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs\n for (i = 0; i \u003c set-\u003enr_hw_queues; i++) {\n old_hctx = xa_load(&q-\u003ehctx_table, i);\n if (!blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx(.., i, ..))\t\t[1]\n if (!old_hctx)\n\t break;\n\n xa_for_each_start(&q-\u003ehctx_table, j, hctx, j)\n blk_mq_exit_hctx(q, set, hctx, j); \t\t\t[2]\n\n if (!q-\u003enr_hw_queues)\t\t\t\t\t[3]\n goto err_hctxs;\n\n err_exit:\n q-\u003emq_ops = NULL;\t\t\t \t\t\t[4]\n\n blk_put_queue\n blk_release_queue\n if (queue_is_mq(q))\t\t\t\t\t[5]\n blk_mq_release(q);\n\n[1]: blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx failed at i != 0.\n[2]: The hctxs allocated by [1] are moved to q-\u003eunused_hctx_list and\nwill be cleaned up in blk_mq_release.\n[3]: q-\u003enr_hw_queues is 0.\n[4]: Set q-\u003emq_ops to NULL.\n[5]: queue_is_mq returns false due to [4]. And blk_mq_release\nwill not be called. The hctxs in q-\u003eunused_hctx_list are leaked.\n\nTo fix it, call blk_release_queue in exception path." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2f8f1336a48bd5186de3476da0a3e2ec06d0533a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2dc97e15a54b7bdf457848aa8c663c98a24e58a6"},{"version":"2f8f1336a48bd5186de3476da0a3e2ec06d0533a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"943f45b9399ed8b2b5190cbc797995edaa97f58f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"6.0.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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