CVE-2022-49458 drm/msm: don't free the IRQ if it was not requested
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's MSM DRM driver allows attackers to trigger a system crash by freeing an unrequested IRQ.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-49458?
CVE-2022-49458 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm: don't free the IRQ if it was not requested
As msm_drm_uninit() is called from the msm_drm_init() error path, additional care should be necessary as not to call the free_irq() for the IRQ that was not requested before (because an error occured earlier than the request_irq() call).
This fixed the issue reported with the following backtrace:
[ 8.571329] Trying to free already-free IRQ 187 [ 8.571339] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 76 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1895 free_irq+0x1e0/0x35c [ 8.588746] Modules linked in: pmic_glink pdr_interface fastrpc qrtr_smd snd_soc_hdmi_codec msm fsa4480 gpu_sched drm_dp_aux_bus qrtr i2c_qcom_geni crct10dif_ce qcom_stats qcom_q6v5_pas drm_display_helper gpi qcom_pil_info drm_kms_helper qcom_q6v5 qcom_sysmon qcom_common qcom_glink_smem qcom_rng mdt_loader qmi_helpers phy_qcom_qmp ufs_qcom typec qnoc_sm8350 socinfo rmtfs_mem fuse drm ipv6 [ 8.624154] CPU: 0 PID: 76 Comm: kworker/u16:2 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-next-20220506-00033-g6cee8cab6089-dirty #419 [ 8.624161] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. SM8350 HDK (DT) [ 8.641496] Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func [ 8.647510] pstate: 604000c5 (nZCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 8.654681] pc : free_irq+0x1e0/0x35c [ 8.658454] lr : free_irq+0x1e0/0x35c [ 8.662228] sp : ffff800008ab3950 [ 8.665642] x29: ffff800008ab3950 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff16350f56a700 [ 8.672994] x26: ffff1635025df080 x25: ffff16350251badc x24: ffff16350251bb90 [ 8.680343] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 00000000000000bb x21: ffff16350e8f9800 [ 8.687690] x20: ffff16350251ba00 x19: ffff16350cbd5880 x18: ffffffffffffffff [ 8.695039] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffa2dd12179434 x15: ffffa2dd1431d02d [ 8.702391] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: ffffa2dd1431d028 x12: 662d79646165726c [ 8.709740] x11: ffffa2dd13fd2438 x10: 000000000000000a x9 : 00000000000000bb [ 8.717111] x8 : ffffa2dd13fd23f0 x7 : ffff800008ab3750 x6 : 00000000fffff202 [ 8.724487] x5 : ffff16377e870a18 x4 : 00000000fffff202 x3 : ffff735a6ae1b000 [ 8.731851] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff1635015f8000 [ 8.739217] Call trace: [ 8.741755] free_irq+0x1e0/0x35c [ 8.745198] msm_drm_uninit.isra.0+0x14c/0x294 [msm] [ 8.750548] msm_drm_bind+0x28c/0x5d0 [msm] [ 8.755081] try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device+0x164/0x1d0 [ 8.760657] __component_add+0xa0/0x170 [ 8.764626] component_add+0x14/0x20 [ 8.768337] dp_display_probe+0x2a4/0x464 [msm] [ 8.773242] platform_probe+0x68/0xe0 [ 8.777043] really_probe.part.0+0x9c/0x28c [ 8.781368] __driver_probe_device+0x98/0x144 [ 8.785871] driver_probe_device+0x40/0x140 [ 8.790191] __device_attach_driver+0xb4/0x120 [ 8.794788] bus_for_each_drv+0x78/0xd0 [ 8.798751] __device_attach+0xdc/0x184 [ 8.802713] device_initial_probe+0x14/0x20 [ 8.807031] bus_probe_device+0x9c/0xa4 [ 8.810991] deferred_probe_work_func+0x88/0xc0 [ 8.815667] process_one_work+0x1d0/0x320 [ 8.819809] worker_thread+0x14c/0x444 [ 8.823688] kthread+0x10c/0x110 [ 8.827036] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/485422/
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49458?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2022-49458?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2022-49458 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49458 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49458, GHSA-c6q3-q7pq-58wm, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49458.