Bug 2363460 (CVE-2022-49805)

Summary: CVE-2022-49805 kernel: net: lan966x: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in lan966x_stats_init()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:05:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: lan966x: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in lan966x_stats_init()

lan966x_stats_init() calls create_singlethread_workqueue() and not
checked the ret value, which may return NULL. And a null-ptr-deref may
happen:

lan966x_stats_init()
    create_singlethread_workqueue() # failed, lan966x->stats_queue is NULL
    queue_delayed_work()
        queue_delayed_work_on()
            __queue_delayed_work()  # warning here, but continue
                __queue_work()      # access wq->flags, null-ptr-deref

Check the ret value and return -ENOMEM if it is NULL.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:55:33 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050127-CVE-2022-49805-56c1@gregkh/T