CVE: CVE-2022-50560
Published: 2025-10-22
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/meson: explicitly remove aggregate driver at module unload time

Because component_master_del wasn't being called when unloading the
meson_drm module, the aggregate device would linger forever in the global
aggregate_devices list. That means when unloading and reloading the
meson_dw_hdmi module, component_add would call into
try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device and find the unbound meson_drm aggregate
device.

This would in turn dereference some of the aggregate_device's struct
entries which point to memory automatically freed by the devres API when
unbinding the aggregate device from meson_drv_unbind, and trigger an
use-after-free bug:

[  +0.000014] =============================================================
[  +0.000007] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in find_components+0x468/0x500
[  +0.000017] Read of size 8 at addr ffff[PII_REDACTED]88 by task modprobe/2536
[  +0.000018] CPU: 4 PID: 2536 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G         C O      5.19.0-rc6-lrmbkasan+ #1
[  +0.000010] Hardware name: Hardkernel ODROID-N2Plus (DT)
[  +0.000008] Call trace:
[  +0.000005]  dump_backtrace+0x1ec/0x280
[  +0.000011]  show_stack+0x24/0x80
[  +0.000007]  dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xd4
[  +0.000010]  print_address_description.constprop.0+0x80/0x520
[  +0.000011]  print_report+0x128/0x260
[  +0.000007]  kasan_report+0xb8/0xfc
[  +0.000007]  __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x3c/0x50
[  +0.000009]  find_components+0x468/0x500
[  +0.000008]  try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device+0x64/0x390
[  +0.000009]  __component_add+0x1dc/0x49c
[  +0.000009]  component_add+0x20/0x30
[  +0.000008]  meson_dw_hdmi_probe+0x28/0x34 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[  +0.000013]  platform_probe+0xd0/0x220
[  +0.000008]  really_probe+0x3ac/0xa80
[  +0.000008]  __driver_probe_device+0x1f8/0x400
[  +0.000008]  driver_probe_device+0x68/0x1b0
[  +0.000008]  __driver_attach+0x20c/0x480
[  +0.000009]  bus_for_each_dev+0x114/0x1b0
[  +0.000007]  driver_attach+0x48/0x64
[  +0.000009]  bus_add_driver+0x390/0x564
[  +0.000007]  driver_register+0x1a8/0x3e4
[  +0.000009]  __platform_driver_register+0x6c/0x94
[  +0.000007]  meson_dw_hdmi_platform_driver_init+0x30/0x1000 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[  +0.000014]  do_one_initcall+0xc4/0x2b0
[  +0.000008]  do_init_module+0x154/0x570
[  +0.000010]  load_module+0x1a78/0x1ea4
[  +0.000008]  __do_sys_init_module+0x184/0x1cc
[  +0.000008]  __arm64_sys_init_module+0x78/0xb0
[  +0.000008]  invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260
[  +0.000008]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xcc/0x260
[  +0.000009]  do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70
[  +0.000008]  el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0
[  +0.000009]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[  +0.000009]  el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190

[  +0.000014] Allocated by task 902:
[  +0.000007]  kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x5c
[  +0.000009]  __kasan_kmalloc+0x90/0xd0
[  +0.000007]  __kmalloc_node+0x240/0x580
[  +0.000010]  memcg_alloc_slab_cgroups+0xa4/0x1ac
[  +0.000010]  memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook+0xbc/0x4c0
[  +0.000008]  kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1d0/0x490
[  +0.000009]  __alloc_skb+0x1d4/0x310
[  +0.000010]  alloc_skb_with_frags+0x8c/0x620
[  +0.000008]  sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x5ac/0x6d0
[  +0.000010]  unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x2e0/0x12f0
[  +0.000010]  sock_sendmsg+0xcc/0x110
[  +0.000007]  sock_write_iter+0x1d0/0x304
[  +0.000008]  new_sync_write+0x364/0x460
[  +0.000007]  vfs_write+0x420/0x5ac
[  +0.000008]  ksys_write+0x19c/0x1f0
[  +0.000008]  __arm64_sys_write+0x78/0xb0
[  +0.000007]  invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260
[  +0.000008]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x1a8/0x260
[  +0.000009]  do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70
[  +0.000007]  el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0
[  +0.000008]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[  +0.000008]  el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190

[  +0.000013] Freed by task 2509:
[  +0.000008]  kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x5c
[  +0.000007]  kasan_set_track+0x2c/0x40
[  +0.000008]  kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x50
[  +0.000008]  ____kasan_slab_free+0x128/0x1d4
[  +0.000008]  __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x24
[  +0.000007]  slab_free_freelist_hook+0x108/0x230
[  +0.000010] 
---truncated---
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/587c7da877219e6185217bf64418e62e114dab1e; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ef20de2fe0ee1decedbfabb17782897ca27bfe5; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8616f2a0589a80e[PII_REDACTED]4250eb22f6a66ce