Bug 2373636 (CVE-2022-50190)

Summary: CVE-2022-50190 kernel: spi: Fix simplification of devm_spi_register_controller
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:11:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

spi: Fix simplification of devm_spi_register_controller

This reverts commit 59ebbe40fb51 ("spi: simplify
devm_spi_register_controller").

If devm_add_action() fails in devm_add_action_or_reset(),
devm_spi_unregister() will be called, it decreases the
refcount of 'ctlr->dev' to 0, then it will cause uaf in
the drivers that calling spi_put_controller() in error path.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 00:03:58 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061836-CVE-2022-50190-5833@gregkh/T