CVE-2022-48817

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.9-5.10.100 - Denial of Service via DSA ar9331 MDIO Bus Registration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: ar9331: 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 ar9331 is an MDIO 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 ar9331 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 ar9331 driver doesn't have a complex code structure for mdiobus removal, so just replace of_mdiobus_register with the devres variant in order to be all-devres and ensure that we don't free a still-registered bus.

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 (15)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.24linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.10linux
linux/Kernel 5.9.0 - 5.10.101linux
Linux/Linux < 5.9
Linux/Linux 5.10.101 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.24 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16.10 - 5.16.*
Linux/Linux 5.17
Linux/Linux 5.9
Linux/Linux ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44 - 475ce5dcf2d88fd4f3c213a0ac944e3e40702970
... and 5 more
Published Jul 16, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026