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CVE-2022-50190

kernel: spi: Fix simplification of devm_spi_register_controller

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7

CVSS 3.1

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Published · June 18, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

spi: Fix simplification of devm_spi_register_controller

This reverts commit 59ebbe40fb51 ("spi: simplify devm_spi_register_controller").

If devm_add_action() fails in devm_add_action_or_reset(), devm_spi_unregister() will be called, it decreases the refcount of 'ctlr->dev' to 0, then it will cause uaf in the drivers that calling spi_put_controller() in error path.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE not specified