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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io-wq: Fix memory leak in worker creation If the CPU mask allocation for a node fails, then the memory allocated for the 'io_wqe' struct of the current node doesn't get freed on the error handling path, since it has not yet been added to the 'wqes' array. This was spotted when fuzzing v6.1-rc1 with Syzkaller: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880093d5000 (size 1024): comm "syz-executor.2", pid 7701, jiffies 4295048595 (age 13.900s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000cb463369>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x18e/0x720 [<00000000147a3f9c>] kmalloc_node_trace+0x2a/0x130 [<000000004e107011>] io_wq_create+0x7b9/0xdc0 [<00000000c38b2018>] io_uring_alloc_task_context+0x31e/0x59d [<00000000867399da>] __io_uring_add_tctx_node.cold+0x19/0x1ba [<000000007e0e7a79>] io_uring_setup.cold+0x1b80/0x1dce [<00000000b545e9f6>] __x64_sys_io_uring_setup+0x5d/0x80 [<000000008a8a7508>] do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x90 [<000000004ac08bec>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-08 | Published 2025-12-09 | Updated 2025-12-09 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

0e03496d1967abf1ebb151a24318c07d07f41f7f (git) before b6e2c54be37d5eb4f6666e6aa59cd0581c7ffc3c
affected

0e03496d1967abf1ebb151a24318c07d07f41f7f (git) before ed981911a7c90a604f4a2bee908ab07e3b786aca
affected

0e03496d1967abf1ebb151a24318c07d07f41f7f (git) before 996d3efeb091c503afd3ee6b5e20eabf446fd955
affected

Default status
affected

5.14
affected

Any version before 5.14
unaffected

5.15.75 (semver)
unaffected

6.0.4 (semver)
unaffected

6.1 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/b6e2c54be37d5eb4f6666e6aa59cd0581c7ffc3c

git.kernel.org/...c/ed981911a7c90a604f4a2bee908ab07e3b786aca

git.kernel.org/...c/996d3efeb091c503afd3ee6b5e20eabf446fd955

cve.org (CVE-2022-50639)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2022-50639)

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