CVE-2022-48812
Published: Jul 16, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: don't use devres for mdiobus 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 GSWIP switch is a platform 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 GSWIP 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 gswip driver has the code structure in place for orderly mdiobus removal, so just replace devm_mdiobus_alloc() with the non-devres variant, and add manual free where necessary, to ensure that we don't let devres free a still-registered bus.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44 - < e177d2e85ebcd3008c4b2abc293f4118e04eedefaffected ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44 - < b5652bc50dde7b84e93dfb25479b64b817e377c1affected ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44 - < 2443ba2fe396bdde187a2fdfa6a57375643ae93caffected ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44 - < 0d120dfb5d67edc5bcd1804e167dba2b30809afd |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.9unaffected 0 - < 5.9unaffected 5.10.101 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.24 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 5.16.10 - <= 5.16.*+1 more versions |
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