Linux Kernel up to 5.10.110/5.15.33/5.16.19/5.17.2 mhi_sync_power_up null pointer dereference

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.110/5.15.33/5.16.19/5.17.2 and classified as critical. The impacted element is the function mhi_sync_power_up. Such manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-49130. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.10.110/5.15.33/5.16.19/5.17.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function mhi_sync_power_up. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ath11k: mhi: use mhi_sync_power_up() If amss.bin was missing ath11k would crash during 'rmmod ath11k_pci'. The reason for that was that we were using mhi_async_power_up() which does not check any errors. But mhi_sync_power_up() on the other hand does check for errors so let's use that to fix the crash. I was not able to find a reason why an async version was used. ath11k_mhi_start() (which enables state ATH11K_MHI_POWER_ON) is called from ath11k_hif_power_up(), which can sleep. So sync version should be safe to use here. [ 145.569731] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN PTI [ 145.569789] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] [ 145.569843] CPU: 2 PID: 1628 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 5.16.0-wt-ath+ #567 [ 145.569898] Hardware name: Intel(R) Client Systems NUC8i7HVK/NUC8i7HVB, BIOS HNKBLi70.86A.0067.2021.0528.1339 05/28/2021 [ 145.569956] RIP: 0010:ath11k_hal_srng_access_begin+0xb5/0x2b0 [ath11k] [ 145.570028] Code: df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 ec 01 00 00 48 8b ab a8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 ea 48 c1 ea 03 b6 14 02 48 89 e8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 45 85 ed 75 48 38 d0 7c 08 [ 145.570089] RSP: 0018:ffffc900025d7ac0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 145.570144] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88814fca2dd8 RCX: 1ffffffff50cb455 [ 145.570196] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88814fca2dd8 RDI: ffff88814fca2e80 [ 145.570252] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffffa8659497 [ 145.570329] R10: fffffbfff50cb292 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88814fca0000 [ 145.570410] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88814fca2798 R15: ffff88814fca2dd8 [ 145.570465] FS: 00007fa399988540(0000) GS:ffff888233e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 145.570519] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 145.570571] CR2: 00007fa399b51421 CR3: 0000000137898002 CR4: 00000000003706e0 [ 145.570623] Call Trace: [ 145.570675] [ 145.570727] ? ath11k_ce_tx_process_cb+0x34b/0x860 [ath11k] [ 145.570797] ath11k_ce_tx_process_cb+0x356/0x860 [ath11k] [ 145.570864] ? tasklet_init+0x150/0x150 [ 145.570919] ? ath11k_ce_alloc_pipes+0x280/0x280 [ath11k] [ 145.570986] ? tasklet_clear_sched+0x42/0xe0 [ 145.571042] ? tasklet_kill+0xe9/0x1b0 [ 145.571095] ? tasklet_clear_sched+0xe0/0xe0 [ 145.571148] ? irq_has_action+0x120/0x120 [ 145.571202] ath11k_ce_cleanup_pipes+0x45a/0x580 [ath11k] [ 145.571270] ? ath11k_pci_stop+0x10e/0x170 [ath11k_pci] [ 145.571345] ath11k_core_stop+0x8a/0xc0 [ath11k] [ 145.571434] ath11k_core_deinit+0x9e/0x150 [ath11k] [ 145.571499] ath11k_pci_remove+0xd2/0x260 [ath11k_pci] [ 145.571553] pci_device_remove+0x9a/0x1c0 [ 145.571605] __device_release_driver+0x332/0x660 [ 145.571659] driver_detach+0x1e7/0x2c0 [ 145.571712] bus_remove_driver+0xe2/0x2d0 [ 145.571772] pci_unregister_driver+0x21/0x250 [ 145.571826] __do_sys_delete_module+0x30a/0x4b0 [ 145.571879] ? free_module+0xac0/0xac0 [ 145.571933] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare.part.0+0x18c/0x370 [ 145.571986] ? syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x1d/0x50 [ 145.572039] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x79/0x100 [ 145.572097] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [ 145.572153] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03003-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-2

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-49130 since 02/26/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 5.10.111, 5.15.34, 5.16.20 or 5.17.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 339bd0b55ecdd0f7f341e9357c4cfde799de9418/20d01a11efde2e05e47d5c66101f5c26eaca68e2/3fd7d50384c3808b7f7fa135aa9bb5feb1cb9849/646d533af2911be1184eaee8c900b7eb8ecc4396/3df6d74aedfdca919cca475d15dfdbc8b05c9e5d is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.10.110
• 5.15.0
• 5.15.1
• 5.15.2
• 5.15.3
• 5.15.4
• 5.15.5
• 5.15.6
• 5.15.7
• 5.15.8
• 5.15.9
• 5.15.10
• 5.15.11
• 5.15.12
• 5.15.13
• 5.15.14
• 5.15.15
• 5.15.16
• 5.15.17
• 5.15.18
• 5.15.19
• 5.15.20
• 5.15.21
• 5.15.22
• 5.15.23
• 5.15.24
• 5.15.25
• 5.15.26
• 5.15.27
• 5.15.28
• 5.15.29
• 5.15.30
• 5.15.31
• 5.15.32
• 5.15.33
• 5.16.0
• 5.16.1
• 5.16.2
• 5.16.3
• 5.16.4
• 5.16.5
• 5.16.6
• 5.16.7
• 5.16.8
• 5.16.9
• 5.16.10
• 5.16.11
• 5.16.12
• 5.16.13
• 5.16.14
• 5.16.15
• 5.16.16
• 5.16.17
• 5.16.18
• 5.16.19
• 5.17.0
• 5.17.1
• 5.17.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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