CVE-2021-47089

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

kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects

Hulk robot reported a kmemleak problem:

    unreferenced object 0xffff93d1d8cc02e8 (size 248):
      comm "cat", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)
      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
        00 40 85 19 d4 93 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00  .@..............
        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      backtrace:
         seq_open+0x2a/0x80
         full_proxy_open+0x167/0x1e0
         do_dentry_open+0x1e1/0x3a0
         path_openat+0x961/0xa20
         do_filp_open+0xae/0x120
         do_sys_openat2+0x216/0x2f0
         do_sys_open+0x57/0x80
         do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
    unreferenced object 0xffff93d419854000 (size 4096):
      comm "cat", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)
      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
        6b 66 65 6e 63 65 2d 23 32 35 30 3a 20 30 78 30  kfence-#250: 0x0
        30 30 30 30 30 30 30 37 35 34 62 64 61 31 32 2d  0000000754bda12-
      backtrace:
         seq_read_iter+0x313/0x440
         seq_read+0x14b/0x1a0
         full_proxy_read+0x56/0x80
         vfs_read+0xa5/0x1b0
         ksys_read+0xa0/0xf0
         do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

I find that we can easily reproduce this problem with the following
commands:

	cat /sys/kernel/debug/kfence/objects
	echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
	cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

The leaked memory is allocated in the stack below:

    do_syscall_64
      do_sys_open
        do_dentry_open
          full_proxy_open
            seq_open            ---> alloc seq_file
      vfs_read
        full_proxy_read
          seq_read
            seq_read_iter
              traverse          ---> alloc seq_buf

And it should have been released in the following process:

    do_syscall_64
      syscall_exit_to_user_mode
        exit_to_user_mode_prepare
          task_work_run
            ____fput
              __fput
                full_proxy_release  ---> free here

However, the release function corresponding to file_operations is not
implemented in kfence.  As a result, a memory leak occurs.  Therefore,
the solution to this problem is to implement the corresponding release
function.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
3.3 LOW
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
LinuxCNA
---
---
CISA-ADPADP
3.3 LOW
LOCAL
LOW
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVEADP
---
---
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: Unknown
VendorProductVersion
linuxlinux_kernel
5.12 ≤
𝑥
< 5.15.12
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16:rc1
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16:rc2
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16:rc3
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16:rc4
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16:rc5
linuxlinux_kernel
5.16:rc6
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
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5.10.223-1
not-affected
buster
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bookworm (security)
6.1.112-1
fixed
trixie
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fixed
sid
6.11.6-1
fixed
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