CVE-2022-48814

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.9-5.15.27 5.16.0-5.16.10 - Denial of Service via DSA Seville MDIO Bus Registration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: seville: 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 Seville VSC9959 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 seville 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 seville driver has a code structure that could accommodate both the mdiobus_unregister and mdiobus_free calls, but it has an external dependency upon mscc_miim_setup() from mdio-mscc-miim.c, which calls devm_mdiobus_alloc_size() on its behalf. So rather than restructuring that, and exporting yet one more symbol mscc_miim_teardown(), let's work with devres and replace of_mdiobus_register with the devres variant. When we use all-devres, we can ensure that devres doesn't free a still-registered bus (it either runs both callbacks, or none).

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 18.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.10linux
linux/Kernel 5.9.0 - 5.15.27linux
Linux/Linux < 5.9
Linux/Linux 5.15.27 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16.10 - 5.16.*
Linux/Linux 5.17
Linux/Linux 5.9
Linux/Linux ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44 - 0e816362d823cd46c666e64d8bffe329ee22f4cc
Linux/Linux ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44 - 1d13e7221035947c62800c9d3d99b4ed570e27e7
Linux/Linux ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44 - bd488afc3b39e045ba71aab472233f2a78726e7b
... and 2 more
Published Jul 16, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026