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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-49808

CVE-2022-49808

Description

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

net: dsa: don't leak tagger-owned storage on switch driver unbind

In the initial commit dc452a471dba ("net: dsa: introduce tagger-owned storage for private and shared data"), we had a call to tag_ops->disconnect(dst) issued from dsa_tree_free(), which is called at tree teardown time.

There were problems with connecting to a switch tree as a whole, so this got reworked to connecting to individual switches within the tree. In this process, tag_ops->disconnect(ds) was made to be called only from switch.c (cross-chip notifiers emitted as a result of dynamic tag proto changes), but the normal driver teardown code path wasn't replaced with anything.

Solve this problem by adding a function that does the opposite of dsa_switch_setup_tag_protocol(), which is called from the equivalent spot in dsa_switch_teardown(). The positioning here also ensures that we won't have any use-after-free in tagging protocol (*rcv) ops, since the teardown sequence is as follows:

dsa_tree_teardown -> dsa_tree_teardown_master -> dsa_master_teardown -> unsets master->dsa_ptr, making no further packets match the ETH_P_XDSA packet type handler -> dsa_tree_teardown_ports -> dsa_port_teardown -> dsa_slave_destroy -> unregisters DSA net devices, there is even a synchronize_net() in unregister_netdevice_many() -> dsa_tree_teardown_switches -> dsa_switch_teardown -> dsa_switch_teardown_tag_protocol -> finally frees the tagger-owned storage

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  • Linux/Kernel8 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 7 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.17,<6.0.10
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.1:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 5.17
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 5.17.0, < 6.0.10

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