In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs:
Fix page leak There’s a loop in afs_extend_writeback() that adds extra
pages to a write we want to make to improve the efficiency of the writeback
by making it larger. This loop stops, however, if we hit a page we can’t
write back from immediately, but it doesn’t get rid of the page ref we
speculatively acquired. This was caused by the removal of the cleanup loop
when the code switched from using find_get_pages_contig() to xarray
scanning as the latter only gets a single page at a time, not a batch. Fix
this by putting the page on a ref on an early break from the loop.
Unfortunately, we can’t just add that page to the pagevec we’re employing
as we’ll go through that and add those pages to the RPC call. This was
found by the generic/074 test. It leaks ~4GiB of RAM each time it is run -
which can be observed with “top”.
git.kernel.org/linus/581b2027af0018944ba301d68e7af45c6d1128b5 (5.15-rc3)
git.kernel.org/stable/c/581b2027af0018944ba301d68e7af45c6d1128b5
git.kernel.org/stable/c/d130b5fdd42254d92948d06347940276140c927e
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2021-47365
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47365
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-47365
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47365