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CVE-2022-50550

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2022
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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blk-iolatency: Fix memory leak on add_disk() failures

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-iolatency: Fix memory leak on add_disk() failures When a gendisk is successfully initialized but add_disk() fails such as when a loop device has invalid number of minor device numbers specified, blkcg_init_disk() is called during init and then blkcg_exit_disk() during error handling. Unfortunately, iolatency gets initialized in the former but doesn't get cleaned up in the latter. This is because, in non-error cases, the cleanup is performed by del_gendisk() calling rq_qos_exit(), the assumption being that rq_qos policies, iolatency being one of them, can only be activated once the disk is fully registered and visible. That assumption is true for wbt and iocost, but not so for iolatency as it gets initialized before add_disk() is called. It is desirable to lazy-init rq_qos policies because they are optional features and add to hot path overhead once initialized - each IO has to walk all the registered rq_qos policies. So, we want to switch iolatency to lazy init too. However, that's a bigger change. As a fix for the immediate problem, let's just add an extra call to rq_qos_exit() in blkcg_exit_disk(). This is safe because duplicate calls to rq_qos_exit() become noop's.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
d70675121546c35feaceebf7ed9caed8716640f3affectedgit2a126e1db5553ce4498290df019866952f858954UnavailableNone listed
d70675121546c35feaceebf7ed9caed8716640f3affectedgit215f9437dda09531bcb80605298a24219f01cec5UnavailableNone listed
d70675121546c35feaceebf7ed9caed8716640f3affectedgit813e693023ba10da9e75067780f8378465bf27ccUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.19affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.19UnavailableNone listed
6.0.17unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.0.*None listed
6.1.2unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.2unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed