CVE-2023-53670

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

nvme-core: fix dev_pm_qos memleak

Call dev_pm_qos_hide_latency_tolerance() in the error unwind patch to avoid following kmemleak:-

blktests (master) # kmemleak-clear; ./check nvme/044; blktests (master) # kmemleak-scan ; kmemleak-show nvme/044 (Test bi-directional authentication) [passed] runtime 2.111s … 2.124s unreferenced object 0xffff888110c46240 (size 96): comm nvme, pid 33461, jiffies 4345365353 (age 75.586s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. backtrace: [<0000000069ac2cec>] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0x90 [<000000006acc66d5>] dev_pm_qos_update_user_latency_tolerance+0x6f/0x100 [<00000000cc376ea7>] nvme_init_ctrl+0x38e/0x410 [nvme_core] [<000000007df61b4b>] 0xffffffffc05e88b3 [<00000000d152b985>] 0xffffffffc05744cb [<00000000f04a4041>] vfs_write+0xc5/0x3c0 [<00000000f9491baf>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 [<000000001c46513d>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<00000000ecf348fe>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
• For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
• When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
• To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ed9a89192e3192e5fea7ff6475c8722513f325e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7237c26431cc78e5ec3259f4350f3dd58f6a4319
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ed5cf8e6d9bfb6a78d0471317edff14f0f2b4dd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1379e067b9485e5af03399fe3f0d39bccb023ad