CVE-2022-49196

powerpc/pseries: Fix use after free in remove_phb_dynamic()

High · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

powerpc/pseries: Fix use after free in remove_phb_dynamic()

In remove_phb_dynamic() we use &phb->io_resource, after we've called

device_unregister(&host_bridge->dev). But the unregister may have freed

phb, because pcibios_free_controller_deferred() is the release function

for the host_bridge.

If there are no outstanding references when we call device_unregister()

then phb will be freed out from under us.

This has gone mainly unnoticed, but with slub_debug and page_poison

enabled it can lead to a crash:

PID: 7574 TASK: c0000000d492cb80 CPU: 13 COMMAND: "drmgr"

#0 [c0000000e4f075a0] crash_kexec at c00000000027d7dc

#1 [c0000000e4f075d0] oops_end at c000000000029608

#2 [c0000000e4f07650] __bad_page_fault at c0000000000904b4

#3 [c0000000e4f076c0] do_bad_slb_fault at c00000000009a5a8

#4 [c0000000e4f076f0] data_access_slb_common_virt at c000000000008b30

Data SLB Access [380] exception frame:

R0: c000000000167250 R1: c0000000e4f07a00 R2: c000000002a46100

R3: c000000002b39ce8 R4: 00000000000000c0 R5: 00000000000000a9

R6: 3894674d000000c0 R7: 0000000000000000 R8: 00000000000000ff

R9: 0000000000000100 R10: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b R11: 0000000000008000

R12: c00000000023da80 R13: c0000009ffd38b00 R14: 0000000000000000

R15: 000000011c87f0f0 R16: 0000000000000006 R17: 0000000000000003

R18: 0000000000000002 R19: 0000000000000004 R20: 0000000000000005

R21: 000000011c87ede8 R22: 000000011c87c5a8 R23: 000000011c87d3a0

R24: 0000000000000000 R25: 0000000000000001 R26: c0000000e4f07cc8

R27: c00000004d1cc400 R28: c0080000031d00e8 R29: c00000004d23d800

R30: c00000004d1d2400 R31: c00000004d1d2540

NIP: c000000000167258 MSR: 8000000000009033 OR3: c000000000e9f474

CTR: 0000000000000000 LR: c000000000167250 XER: 0000000020040003

CCR: 0000000024088420 MQ: 0000000000000000 DAR: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6ba3

DSISR: c0000000e4f07920 Syscall Result: fffffffffffffff2

[NIP : release_resource+56]

[LR : release_resource+48]

#5 [c0000000e4f07a00] release_resource at c000000000167258 (unreliable)

#6 [c0000000e4f07a30] remove_phb_dynamic at c000000000105648

#7 [c0000000e4f07ab0] dlpar_remove_slot at c0080000031a09e8 [rpadlpar_io]

#8 [c0000000e4f07b50] remove_slot_store at c0080000031a0b9c [rpadlpar_io]

#9 [c0000000e4f07be0] kobj_attr_store at c000000000817d8c

#10 [c0000000e4f07c00] sysfs_kf_write at c00000000063e504

#11 [c0000000e4f07c20] kernfs_fop_write_iter at c00000000063d868

#12 [c0000000e4f07c70] new_sync_write at c00000000054339c

#13 [c0000000e4f07d10] vfs_write at c000000000546624

#14 [c0000000e4f07d60] ksys_write at c0000000005469f4

#15 [c0000000e4f07db0] system_call_exception at c000000000030840

#16 [c0000000e4f07e10] system_call_vectored_common at c00000000000c168

To avoid it, we can take a reference to the host_bridge->dev until we're

done using phb. Then when we drop the reference the phb will be freed.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00275 · 18.9th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:55Z
    powerpc/pseries: Fix use after free in remove_phb_dynamic()
    cvelistv5