CVE-2021-47438
CVE-2021-47438CVE-2021-47438
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: Fix memory leak in mlx5_core_destroy_cq() error path
Prior to this patch in case mlx5_core_destroy_cq() failed it returns
without completing all destroy operations and that leads to memory leak.
Instead, complete the destroy flow before return error.
Also move mlx5_debug_cq_remove() to the beginning of mlx5_core_destroy_cq()
to be symmetrical with mlx5_core_create_cq().
kmemleak complains on:
unreferenced object 0xc000000038625100 (size 64):
comm "ethtool", pid 28301, jiffies 4298062946 (age 785.380s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
60 01 48 94 00 00 00 c0 b8 05 34 c3 00 00 00 c0 `.H.......4.....
02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 db 7d c1 00 00 00 c0 ..........}.....
backtrace:
[<000000009e8643cb>] add_res_tree+0xd0/0x270 [mlx5_core]
[<00000000e7cb8e6c>] mlx5_debug_cq_add+0x5c/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
[<000000002a12918f>] mlx5_core_create_cq+0x1d0/0x2d0 [mlx5_core]
[<00000000cef0a696>] mlx5e
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.1 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |