Bug 2347773 (CVE-2022-49692) - CVE-2022-49692 kernel: net: phy: at803x: fix NULL pointer dereference on AR9331 PHY
Summary: CVE-2022-49692 kernel: net: phy: at803x: fix NULL pointer dereference on AR93...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49692
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-02-26 15:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:06:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: phy: at803x: fix NULL pointer dereference on AR9331 PHY

Latest kernel will explode on the PHY interrupt config, since it depends
now on allocated priv. So, run probe to allocate priv to fix it.

 ar9331_switch ethernet.1:10 lan0 (uninitialized): PHY [!ahb!ethernet@1a000000!mdio!switch@10:00] driver [Qualcomm Atheros AR9331 built-in PHY] (irq=13)
 CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000a, epc == 8050e8a8, ra == 80504b34
         ...
 Call Trace:
 [<8050e8a8>] at803x_config_intr+0x5c/0xd0
 [<80504b34>] phy_request_interrupt+0xa8/0xd0
 [<8050289c>] phylink_bringup_phy+0x2d8/0x3ac
 [<80502b68>] phylink_fwnode_phy_connect+0x118/0x130
 [<8074d8ec>] dsa_slave_create+0x270/0x420
 [<80743b04>] dsa_port_setup+0x12c/0x148
 [<8074580c>] dsa_register_switch+0xaf0/0xcc0
 [<80511344>] ar9331_sw_probe+0x370/0x388
 [<8050cb78>] mdio_probe+0x44/0x70
 [<804df300>] really_probe+0x200/0x424
 [<804df7b4>] __driver_probe_device+0x290/0x298
 [<804df810>] driver_probe_device+0x54/0xe4
 [<804dfd50>] __device_attach_driver+0xe4/0x130
 [<804dcb00>] bus_for_each_drv+0xb4/0xd8
 [<804dfac4>] __device_attach+0x104/0x1a4
 [<804ddd24>] bus_probe_device+0x48/0xc4
 [<804deb44>] deferred_probe_work_func+0xf0/0x10c
 [<800a0ffc>] process_one_work+0x314/0x4d4
 [<800a17fc>] worker_thread+0x2a4/0x354
 [<800a9a54>] kthread+0x134/0x13c
 [<8006306c>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c

Same Issue would affect some other PHYs (QCA8081, QCA9561), so fix it
too.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 11:27:53 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022627-CVE-2022-49692-0f29@gregkh/T

Comment 4 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 15:48:23 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022627-CVE-2022-49692-0f29@gregkh/T


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