CVE-2022-49808

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49808
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49808.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49808
Downstream
Published
2025-05-01T14:09:34Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:25Z
Summary
net: dsa: don't leak tagger-owned storage on switch driver unbind
Details

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

net: dsa: don't leak tagger-owned storage on switch driver unbind

In the initial commit dc452a471dba ("net: dsa: introduce tagger-owned storage for private and shared data"), we had a call to tag_ops->disconnect(dst) issued from dsa_tree_free(), which is called at tree teardown time.

There were problems with connecting to a switch tree as a whole, so this got reworked to connecting to individual switches within the tree. In this process, tag_ops->disconnect(ds) was made to be called only from switch.c (cross-chip notifiers emitted as a result of dynamic tag proto changes), but the normal driver teardown code path wasn't replaced with anything.

Solve this problem by adding a function that does the opposite of dsa_switch_setup_tag_protocol(), which is called from the equivalent spot in dsa_switch_teardown(). The positioning here also ensures that we won't have any use-after-free in tagging protocol (*rcv) ops, since the teardown sequence is as follows:

dsa_tree_teardown -> dsa_tree_teardown_master -> dsa_master_teardown -> unsets master->dsa_ptr, making no further packets match the ETH_P_XDSA packet type handler -> dsa_tree_teardown_ports -> dsa_port_teardown -> dsa_slave_destroy -> unregisters DSA net devices, there is even a synchronize_net() in unregister_netdevice_many() -> dsa_tree_teardown_switches -> dsa_switch_teardown -> dsa_switch_teardown_tag_protocol -> finally frees the tagger-owned storage

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49808.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
7f2973149c22e7a6fee4c0c9fa6b8e4108e9c208
Fixed
5809fb03942dbac25144db5bebea84fa003ecaca
Fixed
4e0c19fcb8b5323716140fa82b79aa9f60e60407

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49808.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.17.0
Fixed
6.0.10

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49808.json"