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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50396"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-18T13:33:14.450Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:18:43.526Z"
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-2022-50396"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50396.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50396"
title: "net: sched: fix memory leak in tcindex_set_parms"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: sched: fix memory leak in tcindex_set_parms\n\nSyzkaller reports a memory leak as follows:\n====================================\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810c287f00 (size 256):\n  comm \"syz-executor105\", pid 3600, jiffies 4294943292 (age 12.990s)\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    [\u003cffffffff814cf9f0\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x20/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1046\n    [\u003cffffffff839c9e07\u003e] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:576 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff839c9e07\u003e] kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:627 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff839c9e07\u003e] kcalloc include/linux/slab.h:659 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff839c9e07\u003e] tcf_exts_init include/net/pkt_cls.h:250 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff839c9e07\u003e] tcindex_set_parms+0xa7/0xbe0 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:342\n    [\u003cffffffff839caa1f\u003e] tcindex_change+0xdf/0x120 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:553\n    [\u003cffffffff8394db62\u003e] tc_new_tfilter+0x4f2/0x1100 net/sched/cls_api.c:2147\n    [\u003cffffffff8389e91c\u003e] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4dc/0x5d0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6082\n    [\u003cffffffff839eba67\u003e] netlink_rcv_skb+0x87/0x1d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540\n    [\u003cffffffff839eab87\u003e] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff839eab87\u003e] netlink_unicast+0x397/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345\n    [\u003cffffffff839eb046\u003e] netlink_sendmsg+0x396/0x710 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921\n    [\u003cffffffff8383e796\u003e] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff8383e796\u003e] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:734\n    [\u003cffffffff8383eb08\u003e] ____sys_sendmsg+0x178/0x410 net/socket.c:2482\n    [\u003cffffffff83843678\u003e] ___sys_sendmsg+0xa8/0x110 net/socket.c:2536\n    [\u003cffffffff838439c5\u003e] __sys_sendmmsg+0x105/0x330 net/socket.c:2622\n    [\u003cffffffff83843c14\u003e] __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2651 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff83843c14\u003e] __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2648 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff83843c14\u003e] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x24/0x30 net/socket.c:2648\n    [\u003cffffffff84605fd5\u003e] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff84605fd5\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n    [\u003cffffffff84800087\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n====================================\n\nKernel uses tcindex_change() to change an existing\nfilter properties.\n\nYet the problem is that, during the process of changing,\nif `old_r` is retrieved from `p-\u003eperfect`, then\nkernel uses tcindex_alloc_perfect_hash() to newly\nallocate filter results, uses tcindex_filter_result_init()\nto clear the old filter result, without destroying\nits tcf_exts structure, which triggers the above memory leak.\n\nTo be more specific, there are only two source for the `old_r`,\naccording to the tcindex_lookup(). `old_r` is retrieved from\n`p-\u003eperfect`, or `old_r` is retrieved from `p-\u003eh`.\n\n  * If `old_r` is retrieved from `p-\u003eperfect`, kernel uses\ntcindex_alloc_perfect_hash() to newly allocate the\nfilter results. Then `r` is assigned with `cp-\u003eperfect + handle`,\nwhich is newly allocated. So condition `old_r && old_r != r` is\ntrue in this situation, and kernel uses tcindex_filter_result_init()\nto clear the old filter result, without destroying\nits tcf_exts structure\n\n  * If `old_r` is retrieved from `p-\u003eh`, then `p-\u003eperfect` is NULL\naccording to the tcindex_lookup(). Considering that `cp-\u003eh`\nis directly copied from `p-\u003eh` and `p-\u003eperfect` is NULL,\n`r` is assigned with `tcindex_lookup(cp, handle)`, whose value\nshould be the same as `old_r`, so condition `old_r && old_r != r`\nis false in this situation, kernel ignores using\ntcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result.\n\nSo only when `old_r` is retrieved from `p-\u003eperfect` does kernel use\ntcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result, which\ntriggers the above memory leak.\n\nConsidering that there already exists a tc_filter_wq workqueue\nto destroy the old tcindex_d\n---truncated---"
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