CVE-2022-48961

net: mdio: fix unbalanced fwnode reference count in mdio_device_release()

published October 21, 2024

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: mdio: fix unbalanced fwnode reference count in mdio_device_release()

There is warning report about of_node refcount leak

while probing mdio device:

OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2,

of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry:

attach overlay node /spi/soc@0/mdio@710700c0/ethernet@4

In of_mdiobus_register_device(), we increase fwnode refcount

by fwnode_handle_get() before associating the of_node with

mdio device, but it has never been decreased in normal path.

Since that, in mdio_device_release(), it needs to call

fwnode_handle_put() in addition instead of calling kfree()

directly.

After above, just calling mdio_device_free() in the error handle

path of of_mdiobus_register_device() is enough to keep the

refcount balanced.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00245 · 14.9th percentile
Published
2024-10-21T20:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 OCT 20:05Z
    net: mdio: fix unbalanced fwnode reference count in mdio_device_release()
    cvelistv5