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CVE-2023-54118 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: serial: sc16is7xx: setup GPIO controller later in probe The GPIO controller component of the sc16is7xx driver is setup too early, which can result in a race condition where another device tries to utilise the GPIO lines before the sc16is7xx device has finished initialising. This issue manifests itself as an Oops when the GPIO lines are configured: Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address ... pc : sc16is7xx_gpio_direction_output+0x68/0x108 [sc16is7xx] lr : sc16is7xx_gpio_direction_output+0x4c/0x108 [sc16is7xx] ... Call trace: sc16is7xx_gpio_direction_output+0x68/0x108 [sc16is7xx] gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit+0x64/0x318 gpiod_direction_output+0xb0/0x170 create_gpio_led+0xec/0x198 gpio_led_probe+0x16c/0x4f0 platform_drv_probe+0x5c/0xb0 really_probe+0xe8/0x448 driver_probe_device+0xe8/0x138 __device_attach_driver+0x94/0x118 bus_for_each_drv+0x8c/0xe0 __device_attach+0x100/0x1b8 device_initial_probe+0x28/0x38 bus_probe_device+0xa4/0xb0 deferred_probe_work_func+0x90/0xe0 process_one_work+0x1c4/0x480 worker_thread+0x54/0x430 kthread+0x138/0x150 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c This patch moves the setup of the GPIO controller functions to later in the probe function, ensuring the sc16is7xx device has already finished initialising by the time other devices try to make use of the GPIO lines. The error handling has also been reordered to reflect the new initialisation order.
CVE-2023-54119 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd When inotify_freeing_mark() races with inotify_handle_inode_event() it can happen that inotify_handle_inode_event() sees that i_mark->wd got already reset to -1 and reports this value to userspace which can confuse the inotify listener. Avoid the problem by validating that wd is sensible (and pretend the mark got removed before the event got generated otherwise).
CVE-2023-54079 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 N/A
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: bq27xxx: Fix poll_interval handling and races on remove Before this patch bq27xxx_battery_teardown() was setting poll_interval = 0 to avoid bq27xxx_battery_update() requeuing the delayed_work item. There are 2 problems with this: 1. If the driver is unbound through sysfs, rather then the module being rmmod-ed, this changes poll_interval unexpectedly 2. This is racy, after it being set poll_interval could be changed before bq27xxx_battery_update() checks it through /sys/module/bq27xxx_battery/parameters/poll_interval Fix this by added a removed attribute to struct bq27xxx_device_info and using that instead of setting poll_interval to 0. There also is another poll_interval related race on remove(), writing /sys/module/bq27xxx_battery/parameters/poll_interval will requeue the delayed_work item for all devices on the bq27xxx_battery_devices list and the device being removed was only removed from that list after cancelling the delayed_work item. Fix this by moving the removal from the bq27xxx_battery_devices list to before cancelling the delayed_work item.
CVE-2025-68803 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 7.0 High
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFSD: NFSv4 file creation neglects setting ACL An NFSv4 client that sets an ACL with a named principal during file creation retrieves the ACL afterwards, and finds that it is only a default ACL (based on the mode bits) and not the ACL that was requested during file creation. This violates RFC 8881 section 6.4.1.3: "the ACL attribute is set as given". The issue occurs in nfsd_create_setattr(), which calls nfsd_attrs_valid() to determine whether to call nfsd_setattr(). However, nfsd_attrs_valid() checks only for iattr changes and security labels, but not POSIX ACLs. When only an ACL is present, the function returns false, nfsd_setattr() is skipped, and the POSIX ACL is never applied to the inode. Subsequently, when the client retrieves the ACL, the server finds no POSIX ACL on the inode and returns one generated from the file's mode bits rather than returning the originally-specified ACL.
CVE-2023-54198 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tty: fix out-of-bounds access in tty_driver_lookup_tty() When specifying an invalid console= device like console=tty3270, tty_driver_lookup_tty() returns the tty struct without checking whether index is a valid number. To reproduce: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -nographic -serial mon:stdio \ -kernel ../linux-build-x86/arch/x86/boot/bzImage \ -append "console=ttyS0 console=tty3270" This crashes with: [ 0.770599] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000ef [ 0.771265] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 0.771773] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 0.772609] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 0.774878] RIP: 0010:tty_open+0x268/0x6f0 [ 0.784013] chrdev_open+0xbd/0x230 [ 0.784444] ? cdev_device_add+0x80/0x80 [ 0.784920] do_dentry_open+0x1e0/0x410 [ 0.785389] path_openat+0xca9/0x1050 [ 0.785813] do_filp_open+0xaa/0x150 [ 0.786240] file_open_name+0x133/0x1b0 [ 0.786746] filp_open+0x27/0x50 [ 0.787244] console_on_rootfs+0x14/0x4d [ 0.787800] kernel_init_freeable+0x1e4/0x20d [ 0.788383] ? rest_init+0xc0/0xc0 [ 0.788881] kernel_init+0x11/0x120 [ 0.789356] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
CVE-2025-61667 2 Datadoghq, Linux 2 Agent, Linux 2026-04-15 7.3 High
The Datadog Agent collects events and metrics from hosts and sends them to Datadog. A vulnerability within the Datadog Linux Host Agent versions 7.65.0 through 7.70.2 exists due to insufficient permissions being set on the `opt/datadog-agent/python-scripts/__pycache__` directory during installation. Code in this directory is only run by the Agent during Agent install/upgrades. This could allow an attacker with local access to modify files in this directory, which would then subsequently be run when the Agent is upgraded, resulting in local privilege escalation. This issue requires local access to the host and a valid low privilege account to be vulnerable. Note that this vulnerability only impacts the Linux Host Agent. Other variations of the Agent including the container, kubernetes, windows host and other agents are not impacted. Version 7.71.0 contains a patch for the issue.
CVE-2023-54077 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 N/A
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak if ntfs_read_mft failed Label ATTR_ROOT in ntfs_read_mft() sets is_root = true and ni->ni_flags |= NI_FLAG_DIR, then next attr will goto label ATTR_ALLOC and alloc ni->dir.alloc_run. However two states are not always consistent and can make memory leak. 1) attr_name in ATTR_ROOT does not fit the condition it will set is_root = true but NI_FLAG_DIR is not set. 2) next attr_name in ATTR_ALLOC fits the condition and alloc ni->dir.alloc_run 3) in cleanup function ni_clear(), when NI_FLAG_DIR is set, it frees ni->dir.alloc_run, otherwise it frees ni->file.run 4) because NI_FLAG_DIR is not set in this case, ni->dir.alloc_run is leaked as kmemleak reported: unreferenced object 0xffff888003bc5480 (size 64): backtrace: [<000000003d42e6b0>] __kmalloc_node+0x4e/0x1c0 [<00000000d8e19b8a>] kvmalloc_node+0x39/0x1f0 [<00000000fc3eb5b8>] run_add_entry+0x18a/0xa40 [ntfs3] [<0000000011c9f978>] run_unpack+0x75d/0x8e0 [ntfs3] [<00000000e7cf1819>] run_unpack_ex+0xbc/0x500 [ntfs3] [<00000000bbf0a43d>] ntfs_iget5+0xb25/0x2dd0 [ntfs3] [<00000000a6e50693>] ntfs_fill_super+0x218d/0x3580 [ntfs3] [<00000000b9170608>] get_tree_bdev+0x3fb/0x710 [<000000004833798a>] vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x280 [<000000006e20b8e6>] path_mount+0xf3c/0x1930 [<000000007bf15a5f>] do_mount+0xf3/0x110 ... Fix this by always setting is_root and NI_FLAG_DIR together.
CVE-2023-54075 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 N/A
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ASoC: mediatek: common: Fix refcount leak in parse_dai_link_info Add missing of_node_put()s before the returns to balance of_node_get()s and of_node_put()s, which may get unbalanced in case the for loop 'for_each_available_child_of_node' returns early.
CVE-2023-54074 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 7.0 High
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Use correct encap attribute during invalidation With introduction of post action infrastructure most of the users of encap attribute had been modified in order to obtain the correct attribute by calling mlx5e_tc_get_encap_attr() helper instead of assuming encap action is always on default attribute. However, the cited commit didn't modify mlx5e_invalidate_encap() which prevents it from destroying correct modify header action which leads to a warning [0]. Fix the issue by using correct attribute. [0]: Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 17 PID: 654 at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c:684 mlx5e_tc_attach_mod_hdr+0x1cc/0x230 [mlx5_core] Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: RIP: 0010:mlx5e_tc_attach_mod_hdr+0x1cc/0x230 [mlx5_core] Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: Call Trace: Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: <TASK> Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: mlx5e_tc_fib_event_work+0x8e3/0x1f60 [mlx5_core] Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: ? mlx5e_take_all_encap_flows+0xe0/0xe0 [mlx5_core] Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: ? lock_downgrade+0x6d0/0x6d0 Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3f0 Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x273/0x3f0 Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: process_one_work+0x7c2/0x1310 Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x3f0/0x3f0 Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x230/0x230 Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90 Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: worker_thread+0x59d/0xec0 Feb 21 09:47:35 c-237-177-40-045 kernel: ? __kthread_parkme+0xd9/0x1d0
CVE-2023-54073 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tpm: Add !tpm_amd_is_rng_defective() to the hwrng_unregister() call site The following crash was reported: [ 1950.279393] list_del corruption, ffff99560d485790->next is NULL [ 1950.279400] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1950.279401] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:49! [ 1950.279405] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 1950.279407] CPU: 11 PID: 5886 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G O 6.2.8_1 #1 [ 1950.279409] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550M AORUS PRO-P/B550M AORUS PRO-P, BIOS F15c 05/11/2022 [ 1950.279410] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x59/0xc0 [ 1950.279415] Code: 48 8b 01 48 39 f8 75 5a 48 8b 72 08 48 39 c6 75 65 b8 01 00 00 00 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 08 a8 13 9e e8 b7 0a bc ff <0f> 0b 48 89 fe 48 c7 c7 38 a8 13 9e e8 a6 0a bc ff 0f 0b 48 89 fe [ 1950.279416] RSP: 0018:ffffa96d05647e08 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 1950.279418] RAX: 0000000000000033 RBX: ffff99560d485750 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 1950.279419] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff9e107c59 RDI: 00000000ffffffff [ 1950.279420] RBP: ffffffffc19c5168 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffa96d05647cc8 [ 1950.279421] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffff9ea2a568 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 1950.279422] R13: ffff99560140a2e0 R14: ffff99560127d2e0 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 1950.279422] FS: 00007f67da795380(0000) GS:ffff995d1f0c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1950.279424] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 1950.279424] CR2: 00007f67da7e65c0 CR3: 00000001feed2000 CR4: 0000000000750ee0 [ 1950.279426] PKRU: 55555554 [ 1950.279426] Call Trace: [ 1950.279428] <TASK> [ 1950.279430] hwrng_unregister+0x28/0xe0 [rng_core] [ 1950.279436] tpm_chip_unregister+0xd5/0xf0 [tpm] Add the forgotten !tpm_amd_is_rng_defective() invariant to the hwrng_unregister() call site inside tpm_chip_unregister().
CVE-2023-54071 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 7.0 High
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw88: use work to update rate to avoid RCU warning The ieee80211_ops::sta_rc_update must be atomic, because ieee80211_chan_bw_change() holds rcu_read lock while calling drv_sta_rc_update(), so create a work to do original things. Voluntary context switch within RCU read-side critical section! WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4621 at kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:318 rcu_note_context_switch+0x571/0x5d0 CPU: 0 PID: 4621 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Tainted: G W OE Workqueue: phy3 ieee80211_chswitch_work [mac80211] RIP: 0010:rcu_note_context_switch+0x571/0x5d0 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0xb0/0x1460 ? __mod_timer+0x116/0x360 schedule+0x5a/0xc0 schedule_timeout+0x87/0x150 ? trace_raw_output_tick_stop+0x60/0x60 wait_for_completion_timeout+0x7b/0x140 usb_start_wait_urb+0x82/0x160 [usbcore usb_control_msg+0xe3/0x140 [usbcore rtw_usb_read+0x88/0xe0 [rtw_usb rtw_usb_read8+0xf/0x10 [rtw_usb rtw_fw_send_h2c_command+0xa0/0x170 [rtw_core rtw_fw_send_ra_info+0xc9/0xf0 [rtw_core drv_sta_rc_update+0x7c/0x160 [mac80211 ieee80211_chan_bw_change+0xfb/0x110 [mac80211 ieee80211_change_chanctx+0x38/0x130 [mac80211 ieee80211_vif_use_reserved_switch+0x34e/0x900 [mac80211 ieee80211_link_use_reserved_context+0x88/0xe0 [mac80211 ieee80211_chswitch_work+0x95/0x170 [mac80211 process_one_work+0x201/0x410 worker_thread+0x4a/0x3b0 ? process_one_work+0x410/0x410 kthread+0xe1/0x110 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK>
CVE-2023-54200 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: always release netdev hooks from notifier This reverts "netfilter: nf_tables: skip netdev events generated on netns removal". The problem is that when a veth device is released, the veth release callback will also queue the peer netns device for removal. Its possible that the peer netns is also slated for removal. In this case, the device memory is already released before the pre_exit hook of the peer netns runs: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nf_hook_entry_head+0x1b8/0x1d0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88812c0124f0 by task kworker/u8:1/45 Workqueue: netns cleanup_net Call Trace: nf_hook_entry_head+0x1b8/0x1d0 __nf_unregister_net_hook+0x76/0x510 nft_netdev_unregister_hooks+0xa0/0x220 __nft_release_hook+0x184/0x490 nf_tables_pre_exit_net+0x12f/0x1b0 .. Order is: 1. First netns is released, veth_dellink() queues peer netns device for removal 2. peer netns is queued for removal 3. peer netns device is released, unreg event is triggered 4. unreg event is ignored because netns is going down 5. pre_exit hook calls nft_netdev_unregister_hooks but device memory might be free'd already.
CVE-2023-54201 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 7.0 High
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/efa: Fix wrong resources deallocation order When trying to destroy QP or CQ, we first decrease the refcount and potentially free memory regions allocated for the object and then request the device to destroy the object. If the device fails, the object isn't fully destroyed so the user/IB core can try to destroy the object again which will lead to underflow when trying to decrease an already zeroed refcount. Deallocate resources in reverse order of allocating them to safely free them.
CVE-2023-54202 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915: fix race condition UAF in i915_perf_add_config_ioctl Userspace can guess the id value and try to race oa_config object creation with config remove, resulting in a use-after-free if we dereference the object after unlocking the metrics_lock. For that reason, unlocking the metrics_lock must be done after we are done dereferencing the object. [tursulin: Manually added stable tag.] (cherry picked from commit 49f6f6483b652108bcb73accd0204a464b922395)
CVE-2023-54069 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix BUG in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa() due to overflow When we calculate the end position of ext4_free_extent, this position may be exactly where ext4_lblk_t (i.e. uint) overflows. For example, if ac_g_ex.fe_logical is 4294965248 and ac_orig_goal_len is 2048, then the computed end is 0x100000000, which is 0. If ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical is not the first case of adjusting the best extent, that is, new_bex_end > 0, the following BUG_ON will be triggered: ========================================================= kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5116! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 3 PID: 673 Comm: xfs_io Tainted: G E 6.5.0-rc1+ #279 RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0xc5/0x430 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_mb_use_best_found+0x203/0x2f0 ext4_mb_try_best_found+0x163/0x240 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x158/0x1550 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x86a/0xe10 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xb0c/0x13a0 ext4_map_blocks+0x2cd/0x8f0 ext4_iomap_begin+0x27b/0x400 iomap_iter+0x222/0x3d0 __iomap_dio_rw+0x243/0xcb0 iomap_dio_rw+0x16/0x80 ========================================================= A simple reproducer demonstrating the problem: mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda -b 4096 100M mount /dev/sda /tmp/test fallocate -l1M /tmp/test/tmp fallocate -l10M /tmp/test/file fallocate -i -o 1M -l16777203M /tmp/test/file fsstress -d /tmp/test -l 0 -n 100000 -p 8 & sleep 10 && killall -9 fsstress rm -f /tmp/test/tmp xfs_io -c "open -ad /tmp/test/file" -c "pwrite -S 0xff 0 8192" We simply refactor the logic for adjusting the best extent by adding a temporary ext4_free_extent ex and use extent_logical_end() to avoid overflow, which also simplifies the code.
CVE-2023-54068 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 N/A
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: compress: fix to call f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback() in f2fs_write_raw_pages() BUG_ON() will be triggered when writing files concurrently, because the same page is writtenback multiple times. 1597 void folio_end_writeback(struct folio *folio) 1598 { ...... 1618 if (!__folio_end_writeback(folio)) 1619 BUG(); ...... 1625 } kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1619! Call Trace: <TASK> f2fs_write_end_io+0x1a0/0x370 blk_update_request+0x6c/0x410 blk_mq_end_request+0x15/0x130 blk_complete_reqs+0x3c/0x50 __do_softirq+0xb8/0x29b ? sort_range+0x20/0x20 run_ksoftirqd+0x19/0x20 smpboot_thread_fn+0x10b/0x1d0 kthread+0xde/0x110 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK> Below is the concurrency scenario: [Process A] [Process B] [Process C] f2fs_write_raw_pages() - redirty_page_for_writepage() - unlock page() f2fs_do_write_data_page() - lock_page() - clear_page_dirty_for_io() - set_page_writeback() [1st writeback] ..... - unlock page() generic_perform_write() - f2fs_write_begin() - wait_for_stable_page() - f2fs_write_end() - set_page_dirty() - lock_page() - f2fs_do_write_data_page() - set_page_writeback() [2st writeback] This problem was introduced by the previous commit 7377e853967b ("f2fs: compress: fix potential deadlock of compress file"). All pagelocks were released in f2fs_write_raw_pages(), but whether the page was in the writeback state was ignored in the subsequent writing process. Let's fix it by waiting for the page to writeback before writing.
CVE-2023-54066 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: dvb-usb-v2: gl861: Fix null-ptr-deref in gl861_i2c_master_xfer In gl861_i2c_master_xfer, msg is controlled by user. When msg[i].buf is null and msg[i].len is zero, former checks on msg[i].buf would be passed. Malicious data finally reach gl861_i2c_master_xfer. If accessing msg[i].buf[0] without sanity check, null ptr deref would happen. We add check on msg[i].len to prevent crash. Similar commit: commit 0ed554fd769a ("media: dvb-usb: az6027: fix null-ptr-deref in az6027_i2c_xfer()")
CVE-2023-54065 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 N/A
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: realtek: fix out-of-bounds access The probe function sets priv->chip_data to (void *)priv + sizeof(*priv) with the expectation that priv has enough trailing space. However, only realtek-smi actually allocated this chip_data space. Do likewise in realtek-mdio to fix out-of-bounds accesses. These accesses likely went unnoticed so far, because of an (unused) buf[4096] member in struct realtek_priv, which caused kmalloc to round up the allocated buffer to a big enough size, so nothing of value was overwritten. With a different allocator (like in the barebox bootloader port of the driver) or with KASAN, the memory corruption becomes quickly apparent.
CVE-2023-54064 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipmi:ssif: Fix a memory leak when scanning for an adapter The adapter scan ssif_info_find() sets info->adapter_name if the adapter info came from SMBIOS, as it's not set in that case. However, this function can be called more than once, and it will leak the adapter name if it had already been set. So check for NULL before setting it.
CVE-2023-54062 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2026-04-15 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix invalid free tracking in ext4_xattr_move_to_block() In ext4_xattr_move_to_block(), the value of the extended attribute which we need to move to an external block may be allocated by kvmalloc() if the value is stored in an external inode. So at the end of the function the code tried to check if this was the case by testing entry->e_value_inum. However, at this point, the pointer to the xattr entry is no longer valid, because it was removed from the original location where it had been stored. So we could end up calling kvfree() on a pointer which was not allocated by kvmalloc(); or we could also potentially leak memory by not freeing the buffer when it should be freed. Fix this by storing whether it should be freed in a separate variable.