{"id":"CVE-2022-49513","summary":"cpufreq: governor: Use kobject release() method to free dbs_data","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncpufreq: governor: Use kobject release() method to free dbs_data\n\nThe struct dbs_data embeds a struct gov_attr_set and\nthe struct gov_attr_set embeds a kobject. Since every kobject must have\na release() method and we can't use kfree() to free it directly,\nso introduce cpufreq_dbs_data_release() to release the dbs_data via\nthe kobject::release() method. This fixes the calltrace like below:\n\n  ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x34\n  WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 810 at lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100\n  Modules linked in:\n  CPU: 12 PID: 810 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.16.0-next-20220120-yocto-standard+ #536\n  Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)\n  pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n  pc : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100\n  lr : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100\n  sp : ffff80001dfcf9a0\n  x29: ffff80001dfcf9a0 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: ffff0001464f0000\n  x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff8000090e3f00 x24: ffff80000af60210\n  x23: ffff8000094dfb78 x22: ffff8000090e3f00 x21: ffff0001080b7118\n  x20: ffff80000aeb2430 x19: ffff800009e8f5e0 x18: 0000000000000000\n  x17: 0000000000000002 x16: 00004d62e58be040 x15: 013590470523aff8\n  x14: ffff8000090e1828 x13: 0000000001359047 x12: 00000000f5257d14\n  x11: 0000000000040591 x10: 0000000066c1ffea x9 : ffff8000080d15e0\n  x8 : ffff80000a1765a8 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000001\n  x5 : ffff800009e8c000 x4 : ffff800009e8c760 x3 : 0000000000000000\n  x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0001474ed040\n  Call trace:\n   debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100\n   __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x1d0/0x25c\n   debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x24/0xa0\n   kfree+0x11c/0x440\n   cpufreq_dbs_governor_exit+0xa8/0xac\n   cpufreq_exit_governor+0x44/0x90\n   cpufreq_set_policy+0x29c/0x570\n   store_scaling_governor+0x110/0x154\n   store+0xb0/0xe0\n   sysfs_kf_write+0x58/0x84\n   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1c0\n   new_sync_write+0xf0/0x18c\n   vfs_write+0x1cc/0x220\n   ksys_write+0x74/0x100\n   __arm64_sys_write+0x28/0x3c\n   invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x58/0xf0\n   do_el0_svc+0x70/0x170\n   el0_svc+0x54/0x190\n   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x130\n   el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4\n  irq event stamp: 189006\n  hardirqs last  enabled at (189005): [\u003cffff8000080849d0\u003e] finish_task_switch.isra.0+0xe0/0x2c0\n  hardirqs last disabled at (189006): [\u003cffff8000090667a4\u003e] el1_dbg+0x24/0xa0\n  softirqs last  enabled at (188966): [\u003cffff8000080106d0\u003e] __do_softirq+0x4b0/0x6a0\n  softirqs last disabled at (188957): [\u003cffff80000804a618\u003e] __irq_exit_rcu+0x108/0x1a4\n\n[ rjw: Because can be freed by the gov_attr_set_put() in\n  cpufreq_dbs_governor_exit() now, it is also necessary to put the\n  invocation of the governor -\u003eexit() callback into the new\n  cpufreq_dbs_data_release() function. ]","modified":"2026-03-20T12:24:36.680494Z","published":"2025-02-26T02:13:42.759Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2025:1293-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49513.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e32083f327184b6226ce320ef30085ce785ea4e"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1964688582d26af1328e19b658933659fb54337"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a85ee6401a47ae3fc64ba506cacb3e7873823c65"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49513.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49513"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"c4435630361d9bebf7154a0c842dc1fb7ae39c99"},{"fixed":"a1964688582d26af1328e19b658933659fb54337"},{"fixed":"1e32083f327184b6226ce320ef30085ce785ea4e"},{"fixed":"a85ee6401a47ae3fc64ba506cacb3e7873823c65"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49513.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}