Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in PF setup_nic_devices() cleanup
In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i–) skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak.
Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i down to 0.
Also, decrement i in the devlink_alloc failure path to point to the last successfully allocated index.
Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 5.4.0 (+9 more)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in PF setup_nic_devices() cleanup
In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i–) skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak.
Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i down to 0.
Also, decrement i in the devlink_alloc failure path to point to the last successfully allocated index.
Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.