vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2022-50039: kernel: stmmac: intel: Add a missing clk_disable_unprepare() call in intel_eth_pci_remove()
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jun 18, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 15, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
stmmac: intel: Add a missing clk_disable_unprepare() call in intel_eth_pci_remove()
Commit 09f012e64e4b ("stmmac: intel: Fix clock handling on error and remove
paths") removed this clk_disable_unprepare()
This was partly revert by commit ac322f86b56c ("net: stmmac: Fix clock
handling on remove path") which removed this clk_disable_unprepare()
because:
"
While unloading the dwmac-intel driver, clk_disable_unprepare() is
being called twice in stmmac_dvr_remove() and
intel_eth_pci_remove(). This causes kernel panic on the second call.
"
However later on, commit 5ec55823438e8 ("net: stmmac: add clocks management
for gmac driver") has updated stmmac_dvr_remove() which do not call
clk_disable_unprepare() anymore.
So this call should now be called from intel_eth_pci_remove().
Solution
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