Bug 2348190 (CVE-2022-49223)

Summary: CVE-2022-49223 kernel: cxl/port: Hold port reference until decoder release
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:20:46 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cxl/port: Hold port reference until decoder release

KASAN + DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE reports a potential use-after-free in
cxl_decoder_release() where it goes to reference its parent, a cxl_port,
to free its id back to port->decoder_ida.

 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in to_cxl_port+0x18/0x90 [cxl_core]
 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888119270908 by task kworker/35:2/379

 CPU: 35 PID: 379 Comm: kworker/35:2 Tainted: G           OE     5.17.0-rc2+ #198
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
 Workqueue: events kobject_delayed_cleanup
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x59/0x73
  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x150
  ? to_cxl_port+0x18/0x90 [cxl_core]
  kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf
  ? to_cxl_port+0x18/0x90 [cxl_core]
  to_cxl_port+0x18/0x90 [cxl_core]
  cxl_decoder_release+0x2a/0x60 [cxl_core]
  device_release+0x5f/0x100
  kobject_cleanup+0x80/0x1c0

The device core only guarantees parent lifetime until all children are
unregistered. If a child needs a parent to complete its ->release()
callback that child needs to hold a reference to extend the lifetime of
the parent.
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 20:09:53 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022621-CVE-2022-49223-5a42@gregkh/T