CVE-2022-49753

dmaengine: Fix double increment of client_count in dma_chan_get()

High · published March 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

dmaengine: Fix double increment of client_count in dma_chan_get()

The first time dma_chan_get() is called for a channel the channel

client_count is incorrectly incremented twice for public channels,

first in balance_ref_count(), and again prior to returning. This

results in an incorrect client count which will lead to the

channel resources not being freed when they should be. A simple

test of repeated module load and unload of async_tx on a Dell

Power Edge R7425 also shows this resulting in a kref underflow

warning.

[ 124.329662] async_tx: api initialized (async)

[ 129.000627] async_tx: api initialized (async)

[ 130.047839] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 130.052472] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.

[ 130.057279] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 19364 at lib/refcount.c:28

refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110

[ 130.065811] Modules linked in: async_tx(-) rfkill intel_rapl_msr

intel_rapl_common amd64_edac edac_mce_amd ipmi_ssif kvm_amd dcdbas kvm

mgag200 drm_shmem_helper acpi_ipmi irqbypass drm_kms_helper ipmi_si

syscopyarea sysfillrect rapl pcspkr ipmi_devintf sysimgblt fb_sys_fops

k10temp i2c_piix4 ipmi_msghandler acpi_power_meter acpi_cpufreq vfat

fat drm fuse xfs libcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi sg ahci crct10dif_pclmul

libahci crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel igb megaraid_sas

i40e libata i2c_algo_bit ccp sp5100_tco dca dm_mirror dm_region_hash

dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: async_tx]

[ 130.117361] CPU: 3 PID: 19364 Comm: modprobe Kdump: loaded Not

tainted 5.14.0-185.el9.x86_64 #1

[ 130.126091] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7425/02MJ3T, BIOS

1.18.0 01/17/2022

[ 130.133806] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110

[ 130.139041] Code: 01 01 e8 6d bd 55 00 0f 0b e9 72 9d 8a 00 80 3d

26 18 9c 01 00 75 85 48 c7 c7 f8 a3 03 9d c6 05 16 18 9c 01 01 e8 4a

bd 55 00 <0f> 0b e9 4f 9d 8a 00 80 3d 01 18 9c 01 00 0f 85 5e ff ff ff

48 c7

[ 130.157807] RSP: 0018:ffffbf98898afe68 EFLAGS: 00010286

[ 130.163036] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9da06028e598 RCX: 0000000000000000

[ 130.170172] RDX: ffff9daf9de26480 RSI: ffff9daf9de198a0 RDI: ffff9daf9de198a0

[ 130.177316] RBP: ffff9da7cddf3970 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000ffff7fff

[ 130.184459] R10: ffffbf98898afd00 R11: ffffffff9d9e8c28 R12: ffff9da7cddf1970

[ 130.191596] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

[ 130.198739] FS: 00007f646435c740(0000) GS:ffff9daf9de00000(0000)

knlGS:0000000000000000

[ 130.206832] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

[ 130.212586] CR2: 00007f6463b214f0 CR3: 00000008ab98c000 CR4: 00000000003506e0

[ 130.219729] Call Trace:

[ 130.222192] <TASK>

[ 130.224305] dma_chan_put+0x10d/0x110

[ 130.227988] dmaengine_put+0x7a/0xa0

[ 130.231575] __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x178/0x280

[ 130.237157] ? syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x145/0x1d0

[ 130.242652] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x90

[ 130.246240] ? exc_page_fault+0x62/0x150

[ 130.250178] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

[ 130.255243] RIP: 0033:0x7f6463a3f5ab

[ 130.258830] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 75 a8 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48

83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 b0 00 00

00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 45 a8 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89

01 48

[ 130.277591] RSP: 002b:00007fff22f972c8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX:

00000000000000b0

[ 130.285164] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055b6786edd40 RCX: 00007f6463a3f5ab

[ 130.292303] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000800 RDI: 000055b6786edda8

[ 130.299443] RBP: 000055b6786edd40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

[ 130.306584] R10: 00007f6463b9eac0 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 000055b6786edda8

[ 130.313731] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000055b6786edda8 R15: 00007fff22f995f8

[ 130.320875] </TASK>

[ 130.323081] ---[ end trace eff7156d56b5cf25 ]---

cat /sys/class/dma/dma0chan*/in_use would get the wrong result.

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Test-by: Jie Hai <[email protected]>

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
0.00233 · 13.4th percentile
Published
2025-03-27T16:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 16:43Z
    dmaengine: Fix double increment of client_count in dma_chan_get()
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