vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-48961): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | 10/21/2024 | 11/19/2024 | 02/11/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mdio: fix unbalanced fwnode reference count in mdio_device_release()
There is warning report about of_node refcount leak
while probing mdio device:
OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2,
of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry:
attach overlay node /spi/soc@0/mdio@710700c0/ethernet@4
In of_mdiobus_register_device(), we increase fwnode refcount
by fwnode_handle_get() before associating the of_node with
mdio device, but it has never been decreased in normal path.
Since that, in mdio_device_release(), it needs to call
fwnode_handle_put() in addition instead of calling kfree()
directly.
After above, just calling mdio_device_free() in the error handle
path of of_mdiobus_register_device() is enough to keep the
refcount balanced.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-48961
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-48961
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/cb37617687f2bfa5b675df7779f869147c9002bd
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16854177745a5648f8ec322353b432e18460f43a
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5c6de1a6656b8cc6bce7cb3d9874dd7df4968c3
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb37617687f2bfa5b675df7779f869147c9002bd
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48961

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