In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink
kmemleak reports memory leaks in macvlan_common_newlink, as follows:
ip link add link eth0 name .. type macvlan mode source macaddr add
<MAC-ADDR>
kmemleak reports:
unreferenced object 0xffff8880109bb140 (size 64):
comm "ip", pid 284, jiffies 4294986150 (age 430.108s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 aa 5a 12 80 88 ff ff ..........Z.....
80 1b fa 0d 80 88 ff ff 1e ff ac af c7 c1 6b 6b ..............kk
backtrace:
[<ffffffff813e06a7>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1c7/0x300
[<ffffffff81b66025>] macvlan_hash_add_source+0x45/0xc0
[<ffffffff81b66a67>] macvlan_changelink_sources+0xd7/0x170
[<ffffffff81b6775c>] macvlan_common_newlink+0x38c/0x5a0
[<ffffffff81b6797e>] macvlan_newlink+0xe/0x20
[<ffffffff81d97f8f>] __rtnl_newlink+0x7af/0xa50
[<ffffffff81d98278>] rtnl_newlink+0x48/0x70
...
In the scenario where the macvlan mode is configured as 'source',
macvlan_changelink_sources() will be execured to reconfigure list of
remote source mac addresses, at the same time, if register_netdevice()
return an error, the resource generated by macvlan_changelink_sources()
is not cleaned up.
Using this patch, in the case of an error, it will execute
macvlan_flush_sources() to ensure that the resource is cleaned up.
Publication date: Thu, 01 May 2025 14:10:00 +0000