linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49070: fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

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Message-ID: <2025022655-CVE-2022-49070-6511@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:54:35 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49070: fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

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

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

fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

OF framebuffers do not have an underlying device in the Linux
device hierarchy. Do a regular unregister call instead of hot
unplugging such a non-existing device. Fixes a NULL dereference.
An example error message on ppc64le is shown below.

  BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000060
  Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000080dfa4
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
  [...]
  CPU: 2 PID: 139 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 5.17.0-ae085d7f9365 #1
  NIP:  c00000000080dfa4 LR: c00000000080df9c CTR: c000000000797430
  REGS: c000000004132fe0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (5.17.0-ae085d7f9365)
  MSR:  8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 28228282  XER: 20000000
  CFAR: c00000000000c80c DAR: 0000000000000060 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0
  GPR00: c00000000080df9c c000000004133280 c00000000169d200 0000000000000029
  GPR04: 00000000ffffefff c000000004132f90 c000000004132f88 0000000000000000
  GPR08: c0000000015658f8 c0000000015cd200 c0000000014f57d0 0000000048228283
  GPR12: 0000000000000000 c00000003fffe300 0000000020000000 0000000000000000
  GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000113fc4a40 0000000000000005 0000000113fcfb80
  GPR20: 000001000f7283b0 0000000000000000 c000000000e4a588 c000000000e4a5b0
  GPR24: 0000000000000001 00000000000a0000 c008000000db0168 c0000000021f6ec0
  GPR28: c0000000016d65a8 c000000004b36460 0000000000000000 c0000000016d64b0
  NIP [c00000000080dfa4] do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x184/0x1d0
  [c000000004133280] [c00000000080df9c] do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x17c/0x1d0 (unreliable)
  [c000000004133350] [c00000000080e4d0] remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x60/0x150
  [c0000000041333a0] [c00000000080e6f4] remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers+0x134/0x1b0
  [c000000004133450] [c008000000e70438] drm_aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers+0x90/0x100 [drm]
  [c000000004133490] [c008000000da0ce4] bochs_pci_probe+0x6c/0xa64 [bochs]
  [...]
  [c000000004133db0] [c00000000002aaa0] system_call_exception+0x170/0x2d0
  [c000000004133e10] [c00000000000c3cc] system_call_common+0xec/0x250

The bug [1] was introduced by commit 27599aacbaef ("fbdev: Hot-unplug
firmware fb devices on forced removal"). Most firmware framebuffers
have an underlying platform device, which can be hot-unplugged
before loading the native graphics driver. OF framebuffers do not
(yet) have that device. Fix the code by unregistering the framebuffer
as before without a hot unplug.

Tested with 5.17 on qemu ppc64le emulation.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49070 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.15.33 with commit c894ac44786cfed383a6c6b20c1bfb12eb96018a and fixed in 5.15.34 with commit 2388f826cdc9af2651991adc0feb79de9bdf2232
	Issue introduced in 5.16.19 with commit 9565a3b5203a4d57acbc1d0e981c6df71864b4ab and fixed in 5.16.20 with commit de33df481545974ba47c46f05194e769e4307843
	Issue introduced in 5.17.2 with commit 4d695d7c276f15adb1d2b64c584c3cf8f4f9e9ce and fixed in 5.17.3 with commit feed87ff122b1640c221d4dd559442ab2cd50bb1

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-2022-49070
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/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.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/2388f826cdc9af2651991adc0feb79de9bdf2232
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de33df481545974ba47c46f05194e769e4307843
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/feed87ff122b1640c221d4dd559442ab2cd50bb1
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f525289ff0ddeb380813bd81e0f9bdaaa1c9078