{"id":"CVE-2022-50451","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path\n\nsyzbot reported kmemleak as below:\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32):\n  comm \"a.out\", pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age 25.500s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [<ffffffff81b16052>] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0\n    [<ffffffff8164aaa7>] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430\n    [<ffffffff81626dd4>] path_mount+0x704/0x1080\n    [<ffffffff81627e7c>] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0\n    [<ffffffff84593e14>] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0\n    [<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nThis patch fixes this issue by freeing mount 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