CVE-2022-50639 io-wq: Fix memory leak in worker creation

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 'iowqe' struct of the current node doesn't get freed on the error handling path, since it has not yet been...

CVE-2022-50639

CVE-2022-50639 describes a Linux kernel issue where, during io-wq worker creation, a CPU mask allocation failure could leak memory from the io_wqe structure if not yet added to the wqes array. The available connected sources (Astra Linux, EUVD, OSV, NVD/NIST, etc.) report that this vulnerability ...