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CVE-2022-49905

net/smc: Fix possible leaked pernet namespace in smc_init() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/smc: Fix possible leaked pernet namespace in smc_init() In smc_init(), register_pernet_subsys(&smc_net_stat_ops) is called without any error handling. If it fails, registering of &smc_net_ops won't be reverted. And if smc_nl_init() fails, &smc_net_stat_ops itself won't be reverted. This leaves wild ops in subsystem linkedlist and when another module tries to call register_pernet_operations() it triggers page fault: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff81b964c RIP: 0010:register_pernet_operations+0x1b9/0x5f0 Call Trace: <TASK> register_pernet_subsys+0x29/0x40 ebtables_init+0x58/0x1000 [ebtables] ...

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 194730a9beb52d2b030ea45e12d94868d4a0e6fd before 61defd6450a9ef4a1487090449999b0fd83518ef; affected 194730a9beb52d2b030ea45e12d94868d4a0e6fd before c97daf836f7caf81d3144b8cd2b2a51f9bc3bd09; affected 194730a9beb52d2b030ea45e12d94868d4a0e6fd before 62ff373da2534534c55debe6c724c7fe14adb97f
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.14; unaffected 0 before 5.14; unaffected 5.15.78 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.8 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1 through *

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