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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025

ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()

CVE-2023-53468

Description

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

ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()

kmemleak reported a sequence of memory leaks, and show them as following:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881575f8400 (size 1024): comm "mount", pid 19625, jiffies 4297119604 (age 20.383s) 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: [] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150 [] ubifs_mount+0x307b/0x7170 [ubifs] [] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0 [] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230 [] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0 [] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270 [] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

unreferenced object 0xffff8881798a6e00 (size 512): comm "mount", pid 19677, jiffies 4297121912 (age 37.816s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk backtrace: [] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150 [] ubifs_wbuf_init+0x52/0x480 [ubifs] [] ubifs_mount+0x31f5/0x7170 [ubifs] [] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0 [] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230 [] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0 [] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270 [] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The problem is that the ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error in the loop which in the alloc_wbufs(), then the wbuf->buf and wbuf->inodes that were successfully alloced before are not freed.

Fix it by adding error hanging path in alloc_wbufs() which frees the memory alloced before when ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error.

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