linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49692: net: phy: at803x: fix NULL pointer dereference on AR9331 PHY

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Message-ID: <2025022627-CVE-2022-49692-0f29@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:24:15 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49692: net: phy: at803x: fix NULL pointer dereference on AR9331 PHY

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

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@...00000!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.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49692 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.18 with commit 3265f421887847db9ae2c01a00645e33608556d8 and fixed in 5.18.8 with commit 66fa352215e8455ba2e5f33793535795bd3e36ca
	Issue introduced in 5.18 with commit 3265f421887847db9ae2c01a00645e33608556d8 and fixed in 5.19 with commit 9926de7315be3d606cc011a305ad9adb9e8e14c9

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-2022-49692
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/net/phy/at803x.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/66fa352215e8455ba2e5f33793535795bd3e36ca
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9926de7315be3d606cc011a305ad9adb9e8e14c9