Bug 2363481 (CVE-2022-49926)

Summary: CVE-2022-49926 kernel: net: dsa: Fix possible memory leaks in dsa_loop_init()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:06:25 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: dsa: Fix possible memory leaks in dsa_loop_init()

kmemleak reported memory leaks in dsa_loop_init():

kmemleak: 12 new suspected memory leaks

unreferenced object 0xffff8880138ce000 (size 2048):
  comm "modprobe", pid 390, jiffies 4295040478 (age 238.976s)
  backtrace:
    [<000000006a94f1d5>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60
    [<00000000a9c44622>] phy_device_create+0x5d/0x970
    [<00000000d0ee2afc>] get_phy_device+0xf3/0x2b0
    [<00000000dca0c71f>] __fixed_phy_register.part.0+0x92/0x4e0
    [<000000008a834798>] fixed_phy_register+0x84/0xb0
    [<0000000055223fcb>] dsa_loop_init+0xa9/0x116 [dsa_loop]
    ...

There are two reasons for memleak in dsa_loop_init().

First, fixed_phy_register() create and register phy_device:

fixed_phy_register()
  get_phy_device()
    phy_device_create() # freed by phy_device_free()
  phy_device_register() # freed by phy_device_remove()

But fixed_phy_unregister() only calls phy_device_remove().
So the memory allocated in phy_device_create() is leaked.

Second, when mdio_driver_register() fail in dsa_loop_init(),
it just returns and there is no cleanup for phydevs.

Fix the problems by catching the error of mdio_driver_register()
in dsa_loop_init(), then calling both fixed_phy_unregister() and
phy_device_free() to release phydevs.
Also add a function for phydevs cleanup to avoid duplacate.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:42:51 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050110-CVE-2022-49926-d9bc@gregkh/T