Message-ID: <2025091550-CVE-2022-50256-069f@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:02:04 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50256: drm/meson: remove drm bridges at aggregate driver unbind time

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

drm/meson: remove drm bridges at aggregate driver unbind time

drm bridges added by meson_encoder_hdmi_init and meson_encoder_cvbs_init
were not manually removed at module unload time, which caused dangling
references to freed memory to remain linked in the global bridge_list.

When loading the driver modules back in, the same functions would again
call drm_bridge_add, and when traversing the global bridge_list, would
end up peeking into freed memory.

Once again KASAN revealed the problem:

[  +0.000095] =============================================================
[  +0.000008] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_add_valid+0x9c/0x120
[  +0.000018] Read of size 8 at addr ffff00003da291f0 by task modprobe/2483

[  +0.000018] CPU: 3 PID: 2483 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G         C O      5.19.0-rc6-lrmbkasan+ #1
[  +0.000011] Hardware name: Hardkernel ODROID-N2Plus (DT)
[  +0.000008] Call trace:
[  +0.000006]  dump_backtrace+0x1ec/0x280
[  +0.000012]  show_stack+0x24/0x80
[  +0.000008]  dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xd4
[  +0.000011]  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x80/0x520
[  +0.000011]  print_report+0x128/0x260
[  +0.000008]  kasan_report+0xb8/0xfc
[  +0.000008]  __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x3c/0x50
[  +0.000009]  __list_add_valid+0x9c/0x120
[  +0.000009]  drm_bridge_add+0x6c/0x104 [drm]
[  +0.000165]  dw_hdmi_probe+0x1900/0x2360 [dw_hdmi]
[  +0.000022]  meson_dw_hdmi_bind+0x520/0x814 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[  +0.000014]  component_bind+0x174/0x520
[  +0.000012]  component_bind_all+0x1a8/0x38c
[  +0.000010]  meson_drv_bind_master+0x5e8/0xb74 [meson_drm]
[  +0.000032]  meson_drv_bind+0x20/0x2c [meson_drm]
[  +0.000027]  try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device+0x19c/0x390
[  +0.000010]  component_master_add_with_match+0x1c8/0x284
[  +0.000009]  meson_drv_probe+0x274/0x280 [meson_drm]
[  +0.000026]  platform_probe+0xd0/0x220
[  +0.000009]  really_probe+0x3ac/0xa80
[  +0.000009]  __driver_probe_device+0x1f8/0x400
[  +0.000009]  driver_probe_device+0x68/0x1b0
[  +0.000009]  __driver_attach+0x20c/0x480
[  +0.000008]  bus_for_each_dev+0x114/0x1b0
[  +0.000009]  driver_attach+0x48/0x64
[  +0.000008]  bus_add_driver+0x390/0x564
[  +0.000009]  driver_register+0x1a8/0x3e4
[  +0.000009]  __platform_driver_register+0x6c/0x94
[  +0.000008]  meson_drm_platform_driver_init+0x3c/0x1000 [meson_drm]
[  +0.000027]  do_one_initcall+0xc4/0x2b0
[  +0.000011]  do_init_module+0x154/0x570
[  +0.000011]  load_module+0x1a78/0x1ea4
[  +0.000008]  __do_sys_init_module+0x184/0x1cc
[  +0.000009]  __arm64_sys_init_module+0x78/0xb0
[  +0.000009]  invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260
[  +0.000009]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xcc/0x260
[  +0.000008]  do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70
[  +0.000007]  el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0
[  +0.000012]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[  +0.000008]  el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190

[  +0.000016] Allocated by task 879:
[  +0.000008]  kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x5c
[  +0.000011]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x90/0xd0
[  +0.000007]  __kmalloc+0x278/0x4a0
[  +0.000011]  mpi_resize+0x13c/0x1d0
[  +0.000011]  mpi_powm+0xd24/0x1570
[  +0.000009]  rsa_enc+0x1a4/0x30c
[  +0.000009]  pkcs1pad_verify+0x3f0/0x580
[  +0.000009]  public_key_verify_signature+0x7a8/0xba4
[  +0.000010]  public_key_verify_signature_2+0x40/0x60
[  +0.000008]  verify_signature+0xb4/0x114
[  +0.000008]  pkcs7_validate_trust_one.constprop.0+0x3b8/0x574
[  +0.000009]  pkcs7_validate_trust+0xb8/0x15c
[  +0.000008]  verify_pkcs7_message_sig+0xec/0x1b0
[  +0.000012]  verify_pkcs7_signature+0x78/0xac
[  +0.000007]  mod_verify_sig+0x110/0x190
[  +0.000009]  module_sig_check+0x114/0x1e0
[  +0.000009]  load_module+0xa0/0x1ea4
[  +0.000008]  __do_sys_init_module+0x184/0x1cc
[  +0.000008]  __arm64_sys_init_module+0x78/0xb0
[  +0.000008]  invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260
[  +0.000009]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x1a8/0x260
[  +0.000008]  do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70
[  +0.000007]  el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0
[  +0.000009]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[  +0.000009]  el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190

[  +0.000013] Freed by task 2422:
[  +0.000008]  kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x5c
[  +0.000009]  kasan_set_track+0x2c/0x40
[  +0.000007]  kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x50
[  +0.000009]  ____kasan_slab_free+0x128/0x1d4
[  +0.000008]  __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x24
[  +0.000007]  slab_free_freelist_hook+0x108/0x230
[  +0.000010]  kfree+0x110/0x35c
[  +0.000008]  release_nodes+0xf0/0x16c
[  +0.000009]  devres_release_group+0x180/0x270
[  +0.000008]  take_down_aggregate_device+0xcc/0x160
[  +0.000010]  component_del+0x18c/0x360
[  +0.000009]  meson_dw_hdmi_remove+0x28/0x40 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[  +0.000013]  platform_remove+0x64/0xb0
[  +0.000008]  device_remove+0xb8/0x154
[  +0.000009]  device_release_driver_internal+0x398/0x5b0
[  +0.000009]  driver_detach+0xac/0x1b0
[  +0.000009]  bus_remove_driver+0x158/0x29c
[  +0.000008]  driver_unregister+0x70/0xb0
[  +0.000009]  platform_driver_unregister+0x20/0x2c
[  +0.000007]  meson_dw_hdmi_platform_driver_exit+0x1c/0x30 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[  +0.000012]  __do_sys_delete_module+0x288/0x400
[  +0.000009]  __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x5c/0x80
[  +0.000009]  invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260
[  +0.000008]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xcc/0x260
[  +0.000008]  do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70
[  +0.000007]  el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0
[  +0.000008]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[  +0.000009]  el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190

[  +0.000013] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff00003da29000
               which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
[  +0.000008] The buggy address is located 496 bytes inside of
               1024-byte region [ffff00003da29000, ffff00003da29400)

[  +0.000015] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[  +0.000009] page:fffffc0000f68a00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x3da28
[  +0.000012] head:fffffc0000f68a00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
[  +0.000009] flags: 0xffff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0xffff)
[  +0.000019] raw: 0ffff00000010200 fffffc0000eb5c08 fffffc0000d96608 ffff000000002a80
[  +0.000008] raw: 0000000000000000 00000000000a000a 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
[  +0.000008] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

[  +0.000011] Memory state around the buggy address:
[  +0.000009]  ffff00003da29080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[  +0.000007]  ffff00003da29100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[  +0.000007] >ffff00003da29180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[  +0.000007]                                                              ^
[  +0.000008]  ffff00003da29200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[  +0.000006]  ffff00003da29280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
[  +0.000007] ==================================================================

Fix by keeping track of which encoders were initialised in the meson_drm
structure and manually removing their bridges at aggregate driver's unbind
time.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50256 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 5.19.17 with commit de2b6ebe0cb7746b5b6b35d79e150d934392b958
	Fixed in 6.0.3 with commit fc1fd114dde3d2623ac37676df3d74ffeedb0da8
	Fixed in 6.1 with commit 09847723c12fc2753749cec3939a02ee92dac468

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-2022-50256
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/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.c
	drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_drv.h
	drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_cvbs.c
	drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_cvbs.h
	drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_hdmi.c
	drivers/gpu/drm/meson/meson_encoder_hdmi.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/de2b6ebe0cb7746b5b6b35d79e150d934392b958
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc1fd114dde3d2623ac37676df3d74ffeedb0da8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09847723c12fc2753749cec3939a02ee92dac468

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