Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net: sched: fix memory leak in tcindex_set_parms

Syzkaller reports a memory leak as follows:

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810c287f00 (size 256): comm "syz-executor105", pid 3600, jiffies 4294943292 (age 12.990s) 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: [<ffffffff814cf9f0>] kmalloc_trace+0x20/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1046 [<ffffffff839c9e07>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:576 [inline] [<ffffffff839c9e07>] kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:627 [inline] [<ffffffff839c9e07>] kcalloc include/linux/slab.h:659 [inline] [<ffffffff839c9e07>] tcf_exts_init include/net/pkt_cls.h:250 [inline] [<ffffffff839c9e07>] tcindex_set_parms+0xa7/0xbe0 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:342 [<ffffffff839caa1f>] tcindex_change+0xdf/0x120 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:553 [<ffffffff8394db62>] tc_new_tfilter+0x4f2/0x1100 net/sched/cls_api.c:2147 [<ffffffff8389e91c>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4dc/0x5d0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6082 [<ffffffff839eba67>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x87/0x1d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540 [<ffffffff839eab87>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline] [<ffffffff839eab87>] netlink_unicast+0x397/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345 [<ffffffff839eb046>] netlink_sendmsg+0x396/0x710 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921 [<ffffffff8383e796>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] [<ffffffff8383e796>] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0x80 net/socket.c:734 [<ffffffff8383eb08>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x178/0x410 net/socket.c:2482 [<ffffffff83843678>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xa8/0x110 net/socket.c:2536 [<ffffffff838439c5>] __sys_sendmmsg+0x105/0x330 net/socket.c:2622 [<ffffffff83843c14>] __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2651 [inline] [<ffffffff83843c14>] __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2648 [inline] [<ffffffff83843c14>] __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x24/0x30 net/socket.c:2648 [<ffffffff84605fd5>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff84605fd5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84800087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Kernel uses tcindex_change() to change an existing filter properties.

Yet the problem is that, during the process of changing, if old_r is retrieved from p->perfect, then kernel uses tcindex_alloc_perfect_hash() to newly allocate filter results, uses tcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result, without destroying its tcf_exts structure, which triggers the above memory leak.

To be more specific, there are only two source for the old_r, according to the tcindex_lookup(). old_r is retrieved from p->perfect, or old_r is retrieved from p->h.

• If old_r is retrieved from p->perfect, kernel uses tcindex_alloc_perfect_hash() to newly allocate the filter results. Then r is assigned with cp->perfect + handle, which is newly allocated. So condition old_r && old_r != r is true in this situation, and kernel uses tcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result, without destroying its tcf_exts structure

• If old_r is retrieved from p->h, then p->perfect is NULL according to the tcindex_lookup(). Considering that cp->h is directly copied from p->h and p->perfect is NULL, r is assigned with tcindex_lookup(cp, handle), whose value should be the same as old_r, so condition old_r && old_r != r is false in this situation, kernel ignores using tcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result.

So only when old_r is retrieved from p->perfect does kernel use tcindex_filter_result_init() to clear the old filter result, which triggers the above memory leak.

Considering that there already exists a tc_filter_wq workqueue to destroy the old tcindex_d ---truncated---

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-50396
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/399ab7fe0fa0d846881685fd4e57e9a8ef7559f7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55ac68b53f1cea1926ee2313afc5d66b91daad71
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c55953e232ea668731091d111066521f3b7719b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b314f6c3512108d7a656c5caf07c82d1bbbdc0f1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4de6057e7c6654983acb63d939d26ac0d7bbf39
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/facc4405e8b7407e03216207b1d1d640127de0c8