CVE-2022-49021
21.10.2024, 20:15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: phy: fix null-ptr-deref while probe() failed I got a null-ptr-deref report as following when doing fault injection test: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 PID: 253 Comm: 507-spi-dm9051 Tainted: G B N 6.1.0-rc3+ Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:klist_put+0x2d/0xd0 Call Trace: <TASK> klist_remove+0xf1/0x1c0 device_release_driver_internal+0x23e/0x2d0 bus_remove_device+0x1bd/0x240 device_del+0x357/0x770 phy_device_remove+0x11/0x30 mdiobus_unregister+0xa5/0x140 release_nodes+0x6a/0xa0 devres_release_all+0xf8/0x150 device_unbind_cleanup+0x19/0xd0 //probe path: phy_device_register() device_add() phy_connect phy_attach_direct() //set device driver probe() //it's failed, driver is not bound device_bind_driver() // probe failed, it's not called //remove path: phy_device_remove() device_del() device_release_driver_internal() __device_release_driver() //dev->drv is not NULL klist_remove() <- knode_driver is not added yet, cause null-ptr-deref In phy_attach_direct(), after setting the 'dev->driver', probe() fails, device_bind_driver() is not called, so the knode_driver->n_klist is not set, then it causes null-ptr-deref in __device_release_driver() while deleting device. Fix this by setting dev->driver to NULL in the error path in phy_attach_direct().Enginsight
Vendor | Product | Version |
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linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.14 ≤ 𝑥 < 4.9.335 |
linux | linux_kernel | 4.10 ≤ 𝑥 < 4.14.301 |
linux | linux_kernel | 4.15 ≤ 𝑥 < 4.19.268 |
linux | linux_kernel | 4.20 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.4.226 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.5 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.10.158 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.11 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.15.82 |
linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 ≤ 𝑥 < 6.0.12 |
linux | linux_kernel | 6.1:rc1 |
linux | linux_kernel | 6.1:rc2 |
linux | linux_kernel | 6.1:rc3 |
linux | linux_kernel | 6.1:rc4 |
linux | linux_kernel | 6.1:rc5 |
linux | linux_kernel | 6.1:rc6 |
linux | linux_kernel | 6.1:rc7 |
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= Vulnerable software versions

Debian Releases
Common Weakness Enumeration
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