CVE-2022-50376

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

orangefs: Fix kmemleak in orangefs_{kernel,client}_debug_init()

When insert and remove the orangefs module, there are memory leaked as below:

unreferenced object 0xffff88816b0cc000 (size 2048): comm "insmod", pid 783, jiffies 4294813439 (age 65.512s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 6e 6f 6e 65 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 none............ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<0000000031ab7788>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0 [<000000005b405fee>] orangefs_debugfs_init.cold+0xaf/0x17f [<00000000e5a0085b>] 0xffffffffa02780f9 [<000000004232d9f7>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<0000000054f22384>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320 [<000000003263bdea>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330 [<0000000052cd4153>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0 [<00000000250ae02b>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<00000000f11c03c7>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Use the golbal variable as the buffer rather than dynamic allocate to slove the problem.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not affected by this vulnerability because the OrangeFS file system driver is not enabled or distributed in supported Red Hat kernels. The flaw stems from a memory leak triggered during the initialization and unloading of the OrangeFS module, which additionally requires local administrative privileges to manipulate kernel modules. Because this component is omitted from Red Hat kernel builds, supported systems are not exposed to this issue.