CVE-2022-48818

net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: don't use devres for mdiobus

published July 16, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: don't use devres for mdiobus

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 mv88e6xxx 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 Marvell switch driver on shutdown.

systemd-shutdown[1]: Powering off.

mv88e6085 0x0000000008b96000:00 sw_gl0: Link is Down

fsl-mc dpbp.9: Removing from iommu group 7

fsl-mc dpbp.8: Removing from iommu group 7

------------[ cut here ]------------

kernel BUG at drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:677!

Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

Modules linked in:

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd-shutdow Not tainted 5.16.5-00040-gdc05f73788e5 #15

pc : mdiobus_free+0x44/0x50

lr : devm_mdiobus_free+0x10/0x20

Call trace:

mdiobus_free+0x44/0x50

devm_mdiobus_free+0x10/0x20

devres_release_all+0xa0/0x100

__device_release_driver+0x190/0x220

device_release_driver_internal+0xac/0xb0

device_links_unbind_consumers+0xd4/0x100

__device_release_driver+0x4c/0x220

device_release_driver_internal+0xac/0xb0

device_links_unbind_consumers+0xd4/0x100

__device_release_driver+0x94/0x220

device_release_driver+0x28/0x40

bus_remove_device+0x118/0x124

device_del+0x174/0x420

fsl_mc_device_remove+0x24/0x40

__fsl_mc_device_remove+0xc/0x20

device_for_each_child+0x58/0xa0

dprc_remove+0x90/0xb0

fsl_mc_driver_remove+0x20/0x5c

__device_release_driver+0x21c/0x220

device_release_driver+0x28/0x40

bus_remove_device+0x118/0x124

device_del+0x174/0x420

fsl_mc_bus_remove+0x80/0x100

fsl_mc_bus_shutdown+0xc/0x1c

platform_shutdown+0x20/0x30

device_shutdown+0x154/0x330

kernel_power_off+0x34/0x6c

__do_sys_reboot+0x15c/0x250

__arm64_sys_reboot+0x20/0x30

invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x4c/0xe0

do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x150

el0_svc+0x24/0xb0

el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa8/0xb0

el0t_64_sync+0x178/0x17c

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 Marvell driver already has a good structure for mdiobus removal, so

just plug in mdiobus_free and get rid of devres.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00275 · 18.9th percentile
Published
2024-07-16T11:44Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUL 11:44Z
    net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: don't use devres for mdiobus
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