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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Oct 1, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 23, 2026

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

blk-mq: fix possible memleak when register 'hctx' failed

There's issue as follows when do fault injection test:
unreferenced object 0xffff888132a9f400 (size 512):
comm "insmod", pid 308021, jiffies 4324277909 (age 509.733s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 f4 a9 32 81 88 ff ff ...........2....
08 f4 a9 32 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...2............
backtrace:
[<00000000e8952bb4>] kmalloc_node_trace+0x22/0xa0
[<00000000f9980e0f>] blk_mq_alloc_and_init_hctx+0x3f1/0x7e0
[<000000002e719efa>] blk_mq_realloc_hw_ctxs+0x1e6/0x230
[<000000004f1fda40>] blk_mq_init_allocated_queue+0x27e/0x910
[<00000000287123ec>] __blk_mq_alloc_disk+0x67/0xf0
[<00000000a2a34657>] 0xffffffffa2ad310f
[<00000000b173f718>] 0xffffffffa2af824a
[<0000000095a1dabb>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0
[<00000000f32fdf93>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320
[<00000000cbe8541e>] load_module+0x3006/0x3390
[<0000000069ed1bdb>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0
[<00000000a1a29ae8>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<000000009cd878b0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Fault injection context as follows:
kobject_add
blk_mq_register_hctx
blk_mq_sysfs_register
blk_register_queue
device_add_disk
null_add_dev.part.0 [null_blk]

As 'blk_mq_register_hctx' may already add some objects when failed halfway,
but there isn't do fallback, caller don't know which objects add failed.
To solve above issue just do fallback when add objects failed halfway in
'blk_mq_register_hctx'.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 1, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 1, 2025
Last updated Jan 23, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(15th percentile)

Weaknesses

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2022-50434

GHSA ID

GHSA-46q9-g5hq-xpgm

Source code

No known source code

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