linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49513: cpufreq: governor: Use kobject release() method to free dbs

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Message-ID: <2025022609-CVE-2022-49513-f147@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:13:07 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49513: cpufreq: governor: Use kobject release() method to free dbs_data

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

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

cpufreq: governor: Use kobject release() method to free dbs_data

The struct dbs_data embeds a struct gov_attr_set and
the struct gov_attr_set embeds a kobject. Since every kobject must have
a release() method and we can't use kfree() to free it directly,
so introduce cpufreq_dbs_data_release() to release the dbs_data via
the kobject::release() method. This fixes the calltrace like below:

  ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x34
  WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 810 at lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 12 PID: 810 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.16.0-next-20220120-yocto-standard+ #536
  Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)
  pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
  pc : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
  lr : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
  sp : ffff80001dfcf9a0
  x29: ffff80001dfcf9a0 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: ffff0001464f0000
  x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff8000090e3f00 x24: ffff80000af60210
  x23: ffff8000094dfb78 x22: ffff8000090e3f00 x21: ffff0001080b7118
  x20: ffff80000aeb2430 x19: ffff800009e8f5e0 x18: 0000000000000000
  x17: 0000000000000002 x16: 00004d62e58be040 x15: 013590470523aff8
  x14: ffff8000090e1828 x13: 0000000001359047 x12: 00000000f5257d14
  x11: 0000000000040591 x10: 0000000066c1ffea x9 : ffff8000080d15e0
  x8 : ffff80000a1765a8 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000001
  x5 : ffff800009e8c000 x4 : ffff800009e8c760 x3 : 0000000000000000
  x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0001474ed040
  Call trace:
   debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
   __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x1d0/0x25c
   debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x24/0xa0
   kfree+0x11c/0x440
   cpufreq_dbs_governor_exit+0xa8/0xac
   cpufreq_exit_governor+0x44/0x90
   cpufreq_set_policy+0x29c/0x570
   store_scaling_governor+0x110/0x154
   store+0xb0/0xe0
   sysfs_kf_write+0x58/0x84
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1c0
   new_sync_write+0xf0/0x18c
   vfs_write+0x1cc/0x220
   ksys_write+0x74/0x100
   __arm64_sys_write+0x28/0x3c
   invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x58/0xf0
   do_el0_svc+0x70/0x170
   el0_svc+0x54/0x190
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x130
   el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4
  irq event stamp: 189006
  hardirqs last  enabled at (189005): [<ffff8000080849d0>] finish_task_switch.isra.0+0xe0/0x2c0
  hardirqs last disabled at (189006): [<ffff8000090667a4>] el1_dbg+0x24/0xa0
  softirqs last  enabled at (188966): [<ffff8000080106d0>] __do_softirq+0x4b0/0x6a0
  softirqs last disabled at (188957): [<ffff80000804a618>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x108/0x1a4

[ rjw: Because can be freed by the gov_attr_set_put() in
  cpufreq_dbs_governor_exit() now, it is also necessary to put the
  invocation of the governor ->exit() callback into the new
  cpufreq_dbs_data_release() function. ]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49513 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 4.6 with commit c4435630361d9bebf7154a0c842dc1fb7ae39c99 and fixed in 5.15.91 with commit a1964688582d26af1328e19b658933659fb54337
	Issue introduced in 4.6 with commit c4435630361d9bebf7154a0c842dc1fb7ae39c99 and fixed in 5.18.3 with commit 1e32083f327184b6226ce320ef30085ce785ea4e
	Issue introduced in 4.6 with commit c4435630361d9bebf7154a0c842dc1fb7ae39c99 and fixed in 5.19 with commit a85ee6401a47ae3fc64ba506cacb3e7873823c65

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-2022-49513
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/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h


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/a1964688582d26af1328e19b658933659fb54337
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e32083f327184b6226ce320ef30085ce785ea4e
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a85ee6401a47ae3fc64ba506cacb3e7873823c65