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Unscored CVE-2021-47292 EUVD-2021-34297GHSA-mrm7-vh23-g98v

io_uring: fix memleak in io_init_wq_offload()

Published May 21, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

io_uring: fix memleak in io_init_wq_offload()

I got memory leak report when doing fuzz test:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888107310a80 (size 96):
comm "syz-executor.6", pid 4610, jiffies 4295140240 (age 20.135s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........
backtrace:
[<000000001974933b>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:591 [inline]
[<000000001974933b>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
[<000000001974933b>] io_init_wq_offload fs/io_uring.c:7920 [inline]
[<000000001974933b>] io_uring_alloc_task_context+0x466/0x640 fs/io_uring.c:7955
[<0000000039d0800d>] __io_uring_add_tctx_node+0x256/0x360 fs/io_uring.c:9016
[<000000008482e78c>] io_uring_add_tctx_node fs/io_uring.c:9052 [inline]
[<000000008482e78c>] __do_sys_io_uring_enter fs/io_uring.c:9354 [inline]
[<000000008482e78c>] __se_sys_io_uring_enter fs/io_uring.c:9301 [inline]
[<000000008482e78c>] __x64_sys_io_uring_enter+0xabc/0xc20 fs/io_uring.c:9301
[<00000000b875f18f>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<00000000b875f18f>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<000000006b0a8484>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

CPU0 CPU1
io_uring_enter io_uring_enter
io_uring_add_tctx_node io_uring_add_tctx_node
__io_uring_add_tctx_node __io_uring_add_tctx_node
io_uring_alloc_task_context io_uring_alloc_task_context
io_init_wq_offload io_init_wq_offload
hash = kzalloc hash = kzalloc
ctx->hash_map = hash ctx->hash_map = hash <- one of the hash is leaked

When calling io_uring_enter() in parallel, the 'hash_map' will be leaked,
add uring_lock to protect 'hash_map'.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 5.12 5.13.6

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +20 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +26 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —

References