CVE-2023-54171
Linux Kernel vulnerability analysis and mitigation

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

tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe

kmemleak reports: unreferenced object 0xffff88814d14e200 (size 256): comm "cat", pid 336, jiffies 4294871818 (age 779.490s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 04 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0c d8 c8 9b ff ff ff ff 04 5a ca 9b ff ff ff ff .........Z...... backtrace: [] __kmalloc+0x4f/0x140 [] trace_find_next_entry+0xbb/0x1d0 [] trace_print_lat_context+0xaf/0x4e0 [] print_trace_line+0x3e0/0x950 [] tracing_read_pipe+0x2d9/0x5a0 [] vfs_read+0x143/0x520 [] ksys_read+0xbd/0x160 [] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

when reading file 'trace_pipe', 'iter->temp' is allocated or relocated in trace_find_next_entry() but not freed before 'trace_pipe' is closed.

To fix it, free 'iter->temp' in tracing_release_pipe().


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