Message-ID: <2025022617-CVE-2022-49196-978c@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:56:41 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49196: powerpc/pseries: Fix use after free in remove_phb_dynamic()

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

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

powerpc/pseries: Fix use after free in remove_phb_dynamic()

In remove_phb_dynamic() we use &phb->io_resource, after we've called
device_unregister(&host_bridge->dev). But the unregister may have freed
phb, because pcibios_free_controller_deferred() is the release function
for the host_bridge.

If there are no outstanding references when we call device_unregister()
then phb will be freed out from under us.

This has gone mainly unnoticed, but with slub_debug and page_poison
enabled it can lead to a crash:

  PID: 7574   TASK: c0000000d492cb80  CPU: 13  COMMAND: "drmgr"
   #0 [c0000000e4f075a0] crash_kexec at c00000000027d7dc
   #1 [c0000000e4f075d0] oops_end at c000000000029608
   #2 [c0000000e4f07650] __bad_page_fault at c0000000000904b4
   #3 [c0000000e4f076c0] do_bad_slb_fault at c00000000009a5a8
   #4 [c0000000e4f076f0] data_access_slb_common_virt at c000000000008b30
   Data SLB Access [380] exception frame:
   R0:  c000000000167250    R1:  c0000000e4f07a00    R2:  c000000002a46100
   R3:  c000000002b39ce8    R4:  00000000000000c0    R5:  00000000000000a9
   R6:  3894674d000000c0    R7:  0000000000000000    R8:  00000000000000ff
   R9:  0000000000000100    R10: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b    R11: 0000000000008000
   R12: c00000000023da80    R13: c0000009ffd38b00    R14: 0000000000000000
   R15: 000000011c87f0f0    R16: 0000000000000006    R17: 0000000000000003
   R18: 0000000000000002    R19: 0000000000000004    R20: 0000000000000005
   R21: 000000011c87ede8    R22: 000000011c87c5a8    R23: 000000011c87d3a0
   R24: 0000000000000000    R25: 0000000000000001    R26: c0000000e4f07cc8
   R27: c00000004d1cc400    R28: c0080000031d00e8    R29: c00000004d23d800
   R30: c00000004d1d2400    R31: c00000004d1d2540
   NIP: c000000000167258    MSR: 8000000000009033    OR3: c000000000e9f474
   CTR: 0000000000000000    LR:  c000000000167250    XER: 0000000020040003
   CCR: 0000000024088420    MQ:  0000000000000000    DAR: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6ba3
   DSISR: c0000000e4f07920     Syscall Result: fffffffffffffff2
   [NIP  : release_resource+56]
   [LR   : release_resource+48]
   #5 [c0000000e4f07a00] release_resource at c000000000167258  (unreliable)
   #6 [c0000000e4f07a30] remove_phb_dynamic at c000000000105648
   #7 [c0000000e4f07ab0] dlpar_remove_slot at c0080000031a09e8 [rpadlpar_io]
   #8 [c0000000e4f07b50] remove_slot_store at c0080000031a0b9c [rpadlpar_io]
   #9 [c0000000e4f07be0] kobj_attr_store at c000000000817d8c
  #10 [c0000000e4f07c00] sysfs_kf_write at c00000000063e504
  #11 [c0000000e4f07c20] kernfs_fop_write_iter at c00000000063d868
  #12 [c0000000e4f07c70] new_sync_write at c00000000054339c
  #13 [c0000000e4f07d10] vfs_write at c000000000546624
  #14 [c0000000e4f07d60] ksys_write at c0000000005469f4
  #15 [c0000000e4f07db0] system_call_exception at c000000000030840
  #16 [c0000000e4f07e10] system_call_vectored_common at c00000000000c168

To avoid it, we can take a reference to the host_bridge->dev until we're
done using phb. Then when we drop the reference the phb will be freed.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49196 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 2dd9c11b9d4dfbd6c070eab7b81197f65e82f1a0 and fixed in 5.15.33 with commit 33d39efb61a84e055ca2386157d39ebbdf6b7d31
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 2dd9c11b9d4dfbd6c070eab7b81197f65e82f1a0 and fixed in 5.16.19 with commit 403f9e0bc5535a0a5184d1352fa3a70e6ffacb6f
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 2dd9c11b9d4dfbd6c070eab7b81197f65e82f1a0 and fixed in 5.17.2 with commit 895ca4ae1f72e0a0160ab162723e59c9f265ec93
	Issue introduced in 4.8 with commit 2dd9c11b9d4dfbd6c070eab7b81197f65e82f1a0 and fixed in 5.18 with commit fe2640bd7a62f1f7c3f55fbda31084085075bc30
	Issue introduced in 3.16.39 with commit c3e740838fe3117413425c956ac56a5724ccd9f9
	Issue introduced in 4.7.8 with commit 83573addff2b4e16df9fad9a561a0d77d554b370

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-2022-49196
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:
	arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pci_dlpar.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/33d39efb61a84e055ca2386157d39ebbdf6b7d31
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/403f9e0bc5535a0a5184d1352fa3a70e6ffacb6f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/895ca4ae1f72e0a0160ab162723e59c9f265ec93
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe2640bd7a62f1f7c3f55fbda31084085075bc30

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