CVE-2022-49958
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/06/2025
Last modified:
18/06/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
net/sched: fix netdevice reference leaks in attach_default_qdiscs()<br />
<br />
In attach_default_qdiscs(), if a dev has multiple queues and queue 0 fails<br />
to attach qdisc because there is no memory in attach_one_default_qdisc().<br />
Then dev->qdisc will be noop_qdisc by default. But the other queues may be<br />
able to successfully attach to default qdisc.<br />
<br />
In this case, the fallback to noqueue process will be triggered. If the<br />
original attached qdisc is not released and a new one is directly<br />
attached, this will cause netdevice reference leaks.<br />
<br />
The following is the bug log:<br />
<br />
veth0: default qdisc (fq_codel) fail, fallback to noqueue<br />
unregister_netdevice: waiting for veth0 to become free. Usage count = 32<br />
leaked reference.<br />
qdisc_alloc+0x12e/0x210<br />
qdisc_create_dflt+0x62/0x140<br />
attach_one_default_qdisc.constprop.41+0x44/0x70<br />
dev_activate+0x128/0x290<br />
__dev_open+0x12a/0x190<br />
__dev_change_flags+0x1a2/0x1f0<br />
dev_change_flags+0x23/0x60<br />
do_setlink+0x332/0x1150<br />
__rtnl_newlink+0x52f/0x8e0<br />
rtnl_newlink+0x43/0x70<br />
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x140/0x3b0<br />
netlink_rcv_skb+0x50/0x100<br />
netlink_unicast+0x1bb/0x290<br />
netlink_sendmsg+0x37c/0x4e0<br />
sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70<br />
____sys_sendmsg+0x208/0x280<br />
<br />
Fix this bug by clearing any non-noop qdiscs that may have been assigned<br />
before trying to re-attach.