Bug 2400743 (CVE-2022-50453)

Summary: CVE-2022-50453 kernel: gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:04:55 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gpiolib: cdev: fix NULL-pointer dereferences

There are several places where we can crash the kernel by requesting
lines, unbinding the GPIO device, then calling any of the system calls
relevant to the GPIO character device's annonymous file descriptors:
ioctl(), read(), poll().

While I observed it with the GPIO simulator, it will also happen for any
of the GPIO devices that can be hot-unplugged - for instance any HID GPIO
expander (e.g. CP2112).

This affects both v1 and v2 uAPI.

This fixes it partially by checking if gdev->chip is not NULL but it
doesn't entirely remedy the situation as we still have a race condition
in which another thread can remove the device after the check.
Comment 1 Jon Moroney 2025-10-01 21:31:24 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100117-CVE-2022-50453-204a@gregkh/T