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cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close

Type: advisorySources: OSV

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close xfstests on smb21 report kmemleak as below: unreferenced object 0xffff8881767d6200 (size 64): comm "xfs_io", pid 1284, jiffies 4294777434 (age 20.789s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 5a d0 11 81 88 ff ff 78 8a aa 63 81 88 ff ff .Z......x..c.... 00 71 99 76 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .q.v............ backtrace: [<00000000ad04e6ea>] cifs_close+0x92/0x2c0 [<0000000028b93c82>] __fput+0xff/0x3f0 [<00000000d8116851>] task_work_run+0x85/0xc0 [<0000000027e14f9e>] do_exit+0x5e5/0x1240 [<00000000fb492b95>] do_group_exit+0x58/0xe0 [<00000000129a32d9>] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x28/0x30 [<00000000e3f7d8e9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<00000000102e8a0b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 When cancel the deferred close work, we should also cleanup the struct cifs_deferred_close.

Products
Kernel
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
5.15.63, 5.19.4
CVEs
CVE-2022-50076
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
4 Nov 2026, 04:31 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Jun 2025, 11:02 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix memory leak on the deferred close xfstests on smb21 report kmemleak as below: unreferenced object 0xffff8881767d6200 (size 64): comm "xfs_io", pid 1284, jiffies 4294777434 (age 20.789s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 5a d0 11 81 88 ff ff 78 8a aa 63 81 88 ff ff .Z......x..c.... 00 71 99 76 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .q.v............ backtrace: [<00000000ad04e6ea>] cifs_close+0x92/0x2c0 [<0000000028b93c82>] __fput+0xff/0x3f0 [<00000000d8116851>] task_work_run+0x85/0xc0 [<0000000027e14f9e>] do_exit+0x5e5/0x1240 [<00000000fb492b95>] do_group_exit+0x58/0xe0 [<00000000129a32d9>] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x28/0x30 [<00000000e3f7d8e9>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<00000000102e8a0b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 When cancel the deferred close work, we should also cleanup the struct cifs_deferred_close.

osv:CVE-2022-50076

Kernel

Fixed versions: 5.15.63, 5.19.4

Complete source record
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