kernel: memory leak when merging buffers in SCSI IO vectors

It was found that in the Linux kernel through v4.14-rc5, biomapuseriov and biounmapuser in 'block/bio.c' do unbalanced pages refcounting if IO vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page. bioaddpcpage merges them into one, but the page reference is never dropped, causing a...

kernel: memory leak when merging buffers in SCSI IO vectors

It was found that in the Linux kernel through v4.14-rc5, biomapuseriov and biounmapuser in 'block/bio.c' do unbalanced pages refcounting if IO vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page. bioaddpcpage merges them into one, but the page reference is never dropped, causing a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12190

The biomapuseriov and biounmapuser functions in block/bio.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 do unbalanced refcounting when a SCSI I/O vector has small consecutive buffers belonging to the same page. The bioaddpcpage function merges them into one, but the page reference is never dropped. This...