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CVE-2022-48817

2024-07-1600:00:00
ubuntu.com
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linux kernel
vulnerability
mdiobus registration

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: ar9331: register the mdiobus under devres
As explained in commits:
74b6d7d13307 (“net: dsa: realtek: register the MDIO bus under devres”)
5135e96a3dd2 (“net: dsa: don’t allocate the slave_mii_bus using devres”)
mdiobus_free() will panic when called from devm_mdiobus_free() <-
devres_release_all() <- __device_release_driver(), and that mdiobus was
not previously unregistered.
The ar9331 is an MDIO device, so the initial set of constraints that I
thought would cause this (I2C or SPI buses which call ->remove on
->shutdown) do not apply. But there is one more which applies here.
If the DSA master itself is on a bus that calls ->remove from ->shutdown
(like dpaa2-eth, which is on the fsl-mc bus), there is a device link
between the switch and the DSA master, and device_links_unbind_consumers()
will unbind the ar9331 switch driver on shutdown.
So the same treatment must be applied to all DSA switch drivers, which
is: either use devres for both the mdiobus allocation and registration,
or don’t use devres at all.
The ar9331 driver doesn’t have a complex code structure for mdiobus
removal, so just replace of_mdiobus_register with the devres variant in
order to be all-devres and ensure that we don’t free a still-registered
bus.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu20.04noarchlinux-intel-iotg-5.15< anyUNKNOWN

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High