Bug 2348348 (CVE-2022-49308)

Summary:	CVE-2022-49308 kernel: extcon: Modify extcon device to be created after driver data is set
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:26:17 UTC

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

extcon: Modify extcon device to be created after driver data is set

Currently, someone can invoke the sysfs such as state_show()
intermittently before dev_set_drvdata() is done.
And it can be a cause of kernel Oops because of edev is Null at that time.
So modified the driver registration to after setting drviver data.

- Oops's backtrace.

Backtrace:
[<c067865c>] (state_show) from [<c05222e8>] (dev_attr_show)
[<c05222c0>] (dev_attr_show) from [<c02c66e0>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show)
[<c02c6648>] (sysfs_kf_seq_show) from [<c02c496c>] (kernfs_seq_show)
[<c02c4938>] (kernfs_seq_show) from [<c025e2a0>] (seq_read)
[<c025e11c>] (seq_read) from [<c02c50a0>] (kernfs_fop_read)
[<c02c5064>] (kernfs_fop_read) from [<c0231cac>] (__vfs_read)
[<c0231c5c>] (__vfs_read) from [<c0231ee0>] (vfs_read)
[<c0231e34>] (vfs_read) from [<c0232464>] (ksys_read)
[<c02323f0>] (ksys_read) from [<c02324fc>] (sys_read)
[<c02324e4>] (sys_read) from [<c00091d0>] (__sys_trace_return)

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 07:21:33 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022635-CVE-2022-49308-23f0@gregkh/T