CVE-2022-49187

clk: Fix clk_hw_get_clk() when dev is NULL

Medium · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

clk: Fix clk_hw_get_clk() when dev is NULL

Any registered clk_core structure can have a NULL pointer in its dev

field. While never actually documented, this is evidenced by the wide

usage of clk_register and clk_hw_register with a NULL device pointer,

and the fact that the core of_clk_hw_register() function also passes a

NULL device pointer.

A call to clk_hw_get_clk() on a clk_hw struct whose clk_core is in that

case will result in a NULL pointer derefence when it calls dev_name() on

that NULL device pointer.

Add a test for this case and use NULL as the dev_id if the device

pointer is NULL.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00268 · 18.0th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:55Z
    clk: Fix clk_hw_get_clk() when dev is NULL
    cvelistv5