CVE-2022-50626: kernel: media: dvb-usb: fix memory leak in dvb_usb_adapter_init()
Component: kernel
Severity: Low
CWE: CWE-772 (Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime)
CVSS v3: 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Public date: 2025-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

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

media: dvb-usb: fix memory leak in dvb_usb_adapter_init()

Syzbot reports a memory leak in "dvb_usb_adapter_init()".
The leak is due to not accounting for and freeing current iteration's
adapter->priv in case of an error. Currently if an error occurs,
it will exit before incrementing "num_adapters_initalized",
which is used as a reference counter to free all adap->priv
in "dvb_usb_adapter_exit()". There are multiple error paths that
can exit from before incrementing the counter. Including the
error handling paths for "dvb_usb_adapter_stream_init()",
"dvb_usb_adapter_dvb_init()" and "dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_init()"
within "dvb_usb_adapter_init()".

This means that in case of an error in any of these functions the
current iteration is not accounted for and the current iteration's
adap->priv is not freed.

Fix this by freeing the current iteration's adap->priv in the
"stream_init_err:" label in the error path. The rest of the
(accounted for) adap->priv objects are freed in dvb_usb_adapter_exit()
as expected using the num_adapters_initalized variable.

Syzbot report:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8881172f1a00 (size 512):
  comm "kworker/0:2", pid 139, jiffies 4294994873 (age 10.960s)
  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:
    [<ffffffff844af012>] dvb_usb_adapter_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:75 [inline]
    [<ffffffff844af012>] dvb_usb_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:184 [inline]
    [<ffffffff844af012>] dvb_usb_device_init.cold+0x4e5/0x79e drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:308
    [<ffffffff830db21d>] dib0700_probe+0x8d/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dib0700_core.c:883
    [<ffffffff82d3fdc7>] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
    [<ffffffff8274ab37>] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:542 [inline]
    [<ffffffff8274ab37>] really_probe.part.0+0xe7/0x310 drivers/base/dd.c:621
    [<ffffffff8274ae6c>] really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:583 [inline]
    [<ffffffff8274ae6c>] __driver_probe_device+0x10c/0x1e0 drivers/base/dd.c:752
    [<ffffffff8274af6a>] driver_probe_device+0x2a/0x120 drivers/base/dd.c:782
    [<ffffffff8274b786>] __device_attach_driver+0xf6/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:899
    [<ffffffff82747c87>] bus_for_each_drv+0xb7/0x100 drivers/base/bus.c:427
    [<ffffffff8274b352>] __device_attach+0x122/0x260 drivers/base/dd.c:970
    [<ffffffff827498f6>] bus_probe_device+0xc6/0xe0 drivers/base/bus.c:487
    [<ffffffff82745cdb>] device_add+0x5fb/0xdf0 drivers/base/core.c:3405
    [<ffffffff82d3d202>] usb_set_configuration+0x8f2/0xb80 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2170
    [<ffffffff82d4dbfc>] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8c/0xc0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
    [<ffffffff82d3f49c>] usb_probe_device+0x5c/0x140 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
    [<ffffffff8274ab37>] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:542 [inline]
    [<ffffffff8274ab37>] really_probe.part.0+0xe7/0x310 drivers/base/dd.c:621
    [<ffffffff8274ae6c>] really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:583 [inline]
    [<ffffffff8274ae6c>] __driver_probe_device+0x10c/0x1e0 drivers/base/dd.c:752


Affected upstream versions: 2.6.19
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 4.14.303, 4.19.270, 4.9.337, 5.10.163, 5.15.86, 5.4.229, 6.0.16, 6.1.2, 6.2
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: 733bc9e226da2a7f43b10031b8ebfc26d89ec4bd