Bug 2401530 (CVE-2022-50473)

Summary: CVE-2022-50473 kernel: cpufreq: Init completion before kobject_init_and_add()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-04 16:05:50 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cpufreq: Init completion before kobject_init_and_add()

In cpufreq_policy_alloc(), it will call uninitialed completion in
cpufreq_sysfs_release() when kobject_init_and_add() fails. And
that will cause a crash such as the following page fault in complete:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8
[..]
RIP: 0010:complete+0x98/0x1f0
[..]
Call Trace:
 kobject_put+0x1be/0x4c0
 cpufreq_online.cold+0xee/0x1fd
 cpufreq_add_dev+0x183/0x1e0
 subsys_interface_register+0x3f5/0x4e0
 cpufreq_register_driver+0x3b7/0x670
 acpi_cpufreq_init+0x56c/0x1000 [acpi_cpufreq]
 do_one_initcall+0x13d/0x780
 do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630
 load_module+0x6e67/0x73b0
 __do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-10-06 13:36:01 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100437-CVE-2022-50473-a1fc@gregkh/T