CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-50045
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/pci: Fix get_phb_number() locking
The recent change to get_phb_number() causes a DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
warning on some systems:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:580
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
1 lock held by swapper/1:
#0: c157efb0 (hose_spinlock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: pcibios_alloc_controller+0x64/0x220
Preemption disabled at:
[<00000000>] 0x0
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.19.0-yocto-standard+ #1
Call Trace:
[d101dc90] [c073b264] dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x8c (unreliable)
[d101dcb0] [c0093b70] __might_resched+0x258/0x2a8
[d101dcd0] [c0d3e634] __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x6ec
[d101dd50] [c0a84174] of_alias_get_id+0x50/0xf4
[d101dd80] [c002ec78] pcibios_alloc_controller+0x1b8/0x220
[d101ddd0] [c140c9dc] pmac_pci_init+0x198/0x784
[d101de50] [c140852c] discover_phbs+0x30/0x4c
[d101de60] [c0007fd4] do_one_initcall+0x94/0x344
[d101ded0] [c1403b40] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a8/0x22c
[d101df10] [c00086e0] kernel_init+0x34/0x160
[d101df30] [c001b334] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
This is because pcibios_alloc_controller() holds hose_spinlock but
of_alias_get_id() takes of_mutex which can sleep.
The hose_spinlock protects the phb_bitmap, and also the hose_list, but
it doesn't need to be held while get_phb_number() calls the OF routines,
because those are only looking up information in the device tree.
So fix it by having get_phb_number() take the hose_spinlock itself, only
where required, and then dropping the lock before returning.
pcibios_alloc_controller() then needs to take the lock again before the
list_add() but that's safe, the order of the list is not important.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.61 < 5.15.63)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18.18 < 5.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19.2 < 5.19.4)
• linux linux kernel 5.10.137
• linux linux kernel 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d9e75c3d8cdf7c96a94cb77450d4ee070279e6a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5db5ce0f1963c6c8275719a80cb65e9c98d32726 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f75057c21eab12c6ccb7f06f859641a6edfab99 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d48562a2729742f767b0fdd994d6b2a56a49c63 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90f195c01a2e8d8da6281791617e21109719c981 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a868f771ee41c97a25a04b8c632a7f06689b307b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ccb0a42d3f40c436295e0fef57ab613ae5b925a4 Patch