CVE-2022-49195

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.15.1-5.15.32, 5.16.0-5.16.18, 5.17.0-5.17.1 - NULL Pointer Dereference in DSA Switch Shutdown

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: fix panic on shutdown if multi-chip tree failed to probe DSA probing is atypical because a tree of devices must probe all at once, so out of N switches which call dsa_tree_setup_routing_table() during probe, for (N - 1) of them, "complete" will return false and they will exit probing early. The Nth switch will set up the whole tree on their behalf. The implication is that for (N - 1) switches, the driver binds to the device successfully, without doing anything. When the driver is bound, the ->shutdown() method may run. But if the Nth switch has failed to initialize the tree, there is nothing to do for the (N - 1) driver instances, since the slave devices have not been created, etc. Moreover, dsa_switch_shutdown() expects that the calling @ds has been in fact initialized, so it jumps at dereferencing the various data structures, which is incorrect. Avoid the ensuing NULL pointer dereferences by simply checking whether the Nth switch has previously set "ds->setup = true" for the switch which is currently shutting down. The entire setup is serialized under dsa2_mutex which we already hold.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (15)
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 5.15.33linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.19linux
linux/Kernel 5.17.0 - 5.17.2linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 0650bf52b31ff35dc6430fc2e37969c36baba724 - 8fd36358ce82382519b50b05f437493e1e00c4a9
Linux/Linux 0650bf52b31ff35dc6430fc2e37969c36baba724 - 95df5cd5a446df6738d2d45872e08594819080e4
Linux/Linux 0650bf52b31ff35dc6430fc2e37969c36baba724 - b6e668ff43ebd87ccc8a19e5481345c428672295
Linux/Linux 0650bf52b31ff35dc6430fc2e37969c36baba724 - b864d5350c18bea9369d0bdd9e7eb6f6172cc283
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.33 - 5.15.*
... and 5 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026