Message-ID: <2024102141-CVE-2022-48953-c6c0@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:05:45 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-48953: rtc: cmos: Fix event handler registration ordering issue

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rtc: cmos: Fix event handler registration ordering issue

Because acpi_install_fixed_event_handler() enables the event
automatically on success, it is incorrect to call it before the
handler routine passed to it is ready to handle events.

Unfortunately, the rtc-cmos driver does exactly the incorrect thing
by calling cmos_wake_setup(), which passes rtc_handler() to
acpi_install_fixed_event_handler(), before cmos_do_probe(), because
rtc_handler() uses dev_get_drvdata() to get to the cmos object
pointer and the driver data pointer is only populated in
cmos_do_probe().

This leads to a NULL pointer dereference in rtc_handler() on boot
if the RTC fixed event happens to be active at the init time.

To address this issue, change the initialization ordering of the
driver so that cmos_wake_setup() is always called after a successful
cmos_do_probe() call.

While at it, change cmos_pnp_probe() to call cmos_do_probe() after
the initial if () statement used for computing the IRQ argument to
be passed to cmos_do_probe() which is cleaner than calling it in
each branch of that if () (local variable "irq" can be of type int,
because it is passed to that function as an argument of type int).

Note that commit 6492fed7d8c9 ("rtc: rtc-cmos: Do not check
ACPI_FADT_LOW_POWER_S0") caused this issue to affect a larger number
of systems, because previously it only affected systems with
ACPI_FADT_LOW_POWER_S0 set, but it is present regardless of that
commit.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-48953 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 2.6.28 with commit a474aaedac99 and fixed in 5.10.163 with commit 0bcfccb48696
	Issue introduced in 2.6.28 with commit a474aaedac99 and fixed in 5.15.86 with commit 60c6e563a843
	Issue introduced in 2.6.28 with commit a474aaedac99 and fixed in 6.0.14 with commit 1ba745fce13d
	Issue introduced in 2.6.28 with commit a474aaedac99 and fixed in 6.1 with commit 4919d3eb2ec0

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-48953
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bcfccb48696aba475f046c2021f0733659ce0ef
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60c6e563a843032cf6ff84b2fb732cd8754fc10d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ba745fce13d19775100eece30b0bfb8b8b10ea6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4919d3eb2ec0ee364f7e3cf2d99646c1b224fae8

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