CVE-2022-49968

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

ieee802154/adf7242: defer destroy_workqueue call

There is a possible race condition (use-after-free) like below

(FREE) | (USE) adf7242_remove | adf7242_channel cancel_delayed_work_sync | destroy_workqueue (1) | adf7242_cmd_rx | mod_delayed_work (2) |

The root cause for this race is that the upper layer (ieee802154) is unaware of this detaching event and the function adf7242_channel can be called without any checks.

To fix this, we can add a flag write at the beginning of adf7242_remove and add flag check in adf7242_channel. Or we can just defer the destructive operation like other commit 3e0588c291d6 (hamradio: defer ax25 kfree after unregister_netdev) which let the ieee802154_unregister_hw() to handle the synchronization. This patch takes the second option.

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Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15f3b89bd521d5770d36a61fc04a77c293138ba6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23a29932715ca43bceb2eae1bdb770995afe7271
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f8558c5c642c62c450c98c99b7d18a709fff485
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afe7116f6d3b888778ed6d95e3cf724767b9aedf
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bed12d7531df1417fc92c691999ff95e03835008
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dede80aaf01f4b6e8657d23726cb4a3da226ec4c