CVE-2021-46956

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

virtiofs: fix memory leak in virtio_fs_probe()

When accidentally passing twice the same tag to qemu, kmemleak ended up
reporting a memory leak in virtiofs.  Also, looking at the log I saw the
following error (that's when I realised the duplicated tag):

  virtiofs: probe of virtio5 failed with error -17

Here's the kmemleak log for reference:

unreferenced object 0xffff888103d47800 (size 1024):
  comm "systemd-udevd", pid 118, jiffies 4294893780 (age 18.340s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 80 90 02 a0 ff ff ff ff  ................
  backtrace:
    [<000000000ebb87c1>] virtio_fs_probe+0x171/0x7ae [virtiofs]
    [<00000000f8aca419>] virtio_dev_probe+0x15f/0x210
    [<000000004d6baf3c>] really_probe+0xea/0x430
    [<00000000a6ceeac8>] device_driver_attach+0xa8/0xb0
    [<00000000196f47a7>] __driver_attach+0x98/0x140
    [<000000000b20601d>] bus_for_each_dev+0x7b/0xc0
    [<00000000399c7b7f>] bus_add_driver+0x11b/0x1f0
    [<0000000032b09ba7>] driver_register+0x8f/0xe0
    [<00000000cdd55998>] 0xffffffffa002c013
    [<000000000ea196a2>] do_one_initcall+0x64/0x2e0
    [<0000000008f727ce>] do_init_module+0x5c/0x260
    [<000000003cdedab6>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xb5/0x120
    [<00000000ad2f48c6>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
    [<00000000809526b5>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
5.5 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
LinuxCNA
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EPSS Score
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jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.4
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
pending
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-5.8
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-oracle-6.5
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi
noble
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
jammy
not-affected
focal
Fixed 5.4.0-1038.41
released
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi-5.4
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
pending
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi-realtime
noble
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-raspi2
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
ignored
xenial
ignored
trusty
dne
linux-raspi2-5.3
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-realtime
noble
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv
noble
not-affected
mantic
not-affected
jammy
ignored
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.11
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.15
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
not-affected
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.19
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-5.8
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
ignored
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-6.5
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-riscv-6.8
noble
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-snapdragon
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
ignored
xenial
ignored
trusty
dne
linux-starfive
noble
dne
mantic
not-affected
jammy
dne
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-5.19
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-6.2
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
ignored
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-starfive-6.5
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
dne
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne
linux-xilinx-zynqmp
noble
dne
mantic
dne
jammy
not-affected
focal
not-affected
bionic
dne
xenial
dne
trusty
dne