CVE-2022-50202

PM: hibernate: defer device probing when resuming from hibernation

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

PM: hibernate: defer device probing when resuming from hibernation

syzbot is reporting hung task at misc_open() [1], for there is a race

window of AB-BA deadlock which involves probe_count variable. Currently

wait_for_device_probe() from snapshot_open() from misc_open() can sleep

forever with misc_mtx held if probe_count cannot become 0.

When a device is probed by hub_event() work function, probe_count is

incremented before the probe function starts, and probe_count is

decremented after the probe function completed.

There are three cases that can prevent probe_count from dropping to 0.

(a) A device being probed stopped responding (i.e. broken/malicious

hardware).

(b) A process emulating a USB device using /dev/raw-gadget interface

stopped responding for some reason.

(c) New device probe requests keeps coming in before existing device

probe requests complete.

The phenomenon syzbot is reporting is (b). A process which is holding

system_transition_mutex and misc_mtx is waiting for probe_count to become

0 inside wait_for_device_probe(), but the probe function which is called

from hub_event() work function is waiting for the processes which are

blocked at mutex_lock(&misc_mtx) to respond via /dev/raw-gadget interface.

This patch mitigates (b) by deferring wait_for_device_probe() from

snapshot_open() to snapshot_write() and snapshot_ioctl(). Please note that

the possibility of (b) remains as long as any thread which is emulating a

USB device via /dev/raw-gadget interface can be blocked by uninterruptible

blocking operations (e.g. mutex_lock()).

Please also note that (a) and (c) are not addressed. Regarding (c), we

should change the code to wait for only one device which contains the

image for resuming from hibernation. I don't know how to address (a), for

use of timeout for wait_for_device_probe() might result in loss of user

data in the image. Maybe we should require the userland to wait for the

image device before opening /dev/snapshot interface.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00253 · 15.9th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T11:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:03Z
    PM: hibernate: defer device probing when resuming from hibernation
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