Description (CNA)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: airoha: Fix potential use-after-free in airoha_ppe_deinit() airoha_ppe_deinit() replaces the NPU pointer with NULL via rcu_replace_pointer() but does not wait for existing RCU readers to exit before calling ppe_deinit() and airoha_npu_put(). This can cause a use-after-free if a reader in an RCU read-side critical section still holds a reference to the NPU when it is freed. The init path (airoha_ppe_init) already calls synchronize_rcu() after rcu_assign_pointer(), but the deinit path introduced in commit 6abcf751bc08 ("net: airoha: Fix schedule while atomic in airoha_ppe_deinit()") omitted the matching barrier when switching from rcu_read_lock()/rcu_dereference() to rcu_replace_pointer(). Add synchronize_rcu() before ppe_deinit() to ensure all existing RCU readers have completed before the NPU resources are released.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux / Linux | affected 72f93dc6d1a6b157e0c3d247085c74935893cca0 before 46e3bed4b071095ecc9384a7b349e1908728531f; affected 6abcf751bc084804a9e5b3051442e8a2ce67f48a before ad28c4f9e0eae4993cb3fde3e7cea330acd8b97c; affected 6abcf751bc084804a9e5b3051442e8a2ce67f48a before 2484568a335cd7bda951c75b3a7d95ea36161ae7; affected 6.18.6 before 6.18.42 |
| Linux / Linux | affected 6.19; unaffected 0 before 6.19; unaffected 6.18.42 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.6 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2 through * |
CWE
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