vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-48815): linux-intel-iotg-5.15 vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jul 16, 2024 | Nov 19, 2024 | Oct 7, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: bcm_sf2: 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 Starfighter 2 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 bcm_sf2 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 bcm_sf2 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.
Solution
References
- CVE-2022-48815
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-48815
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/08f1a20822349004bb9cc1b153ecb516e9f2889d
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08e1a3554e99a1a5bd2835907381e2383ee85cae
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08f1a20822349004bb9cc1b153ecb516e9f2889d
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2770b795294ed312375c11ef1d0b810499c66b83
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caabb5f64f5c32fceed93356bb688ef1ec6c5783
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48815
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