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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025

jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_fill_super

CVE-2022-49381

Description

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

jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_fill_super

If jffs2_iget() or d_make_root() in jffs2_do_fill_super() returns an error, we can observe the following kmemleak report:

-------------------------------------------- unreferenced object 0xffff888105a65340 (size 64): comm "mount", pid 710, jiffies 4302851558 (age 58.239s) 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: [] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x475/0x8a0 [] jffs2_sum_init+0x96/0x1a0 [] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x745/0x2120 [] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x35c/0x810 [] jffs2_fill_super+0x2b9/0x3b0 [...] unreferenced object 0xffff8881bd7f0000 (size 65536): comm "mount", pid 710, jiffies 4302851558 (age 58.239s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ backtrace: [] kmalloc_order+0xda/0x110 [] kmalloc_order_trace+0x21/0x130 [] __kmalloc+0x711/0x8a0 [] jffs2_sum_init+0xd9/0x1a0 [] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x745/0x2120 [] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x35c/0x810 [] jffs2_fill_super+0x2b9/0x3b0 [...] --------------------------------------------

This is because the resources allocated in jffs2_sum_init() are not released. Call jffs2_sum_exit() to release these resources to solve the problem.

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