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But there is one more which\napplies here.\n\nIf the DSA master itself is on a bus that calls ->remove from ->shutdown\n(like dpaa2-eth, which is on the fsl-mc bus), there is a device link\nbetween the switch and the DSA master, and device_links_unbind_consumers()\nwill unbind the felix switch driver on shutdown.\n\nSo the same treatment must be applied to all DSA switch drivers, which\nis: either use devres for both the mdiobus allocation and registration,\nor don't use devres at all.\n\nThe felix driver has the code structure in place for orderly mdiobus\nremoval, so just replace devm_mdiobus_alloc_size() with the non-devres\nvariant, and add manual free where necessary, to ensure that we don't\nlet devres free a still-registered bus.","publishedAt":"2024-07-16T11:44:02.578Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-11T18:47:37.877Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux Linux"],"affected":[{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44","status":"affected","lessThan":"95e5402f9430b3c7d885dd3ec4c8c02c17936923","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44","status":"affected","lessThan":"8cda7577a0b4018572f31e0caadfabd305ea2786","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44","status":"affected","lessThan":"9db6f056efd089e80d81c774c01b639adf30c097","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ac3a68d56651c3dad2c12c7afce065fe15267f44","status":"affected","lessThan":"209bdb7ec6a28c7cdf580a0a98afbc9fc3b98932","versionType":"git"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix_vsc9959.c"]},{"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","lessThan":"5.9","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.10.101","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15.24","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.16.10","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","lessThanOrEqual":"*","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/net/dsa/ocelot/felix_vsc9959.c"]}],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95e5402f9430b3c7d885dd3ec4c8c02c17936923","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cda7577a0b4018572f31e0caadfabd305ea2786","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9db6f056efd089e80d81c774c01b639adf30c097","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/209bdb7ec6a28c7cdf580a0a98afbc9fc3b98932"],"weaknesses":[],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:05:26.763Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2022/48xxx/CVE-2022-48813.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2022-48813","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2024-07-16T11:44:02.578Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T18:47:37.877Z","assignerShortName":"Linux","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","dateReserved":"2024-07-16T11:38:08.898Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"net: dsa: felix: don't use devres for mdiobus","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: dsa: felix: don't use devres for mdiobus\n\nAs explained in commits:\n74b6d7d13307 (\"net: dsa: realtek: register the MDIO bus under devres\")\n5135e96a3dd2 (\"net: dsa: don't allocate the slave_mii_bus using devres\")\n\nmdiobus_free() will panic when called from devm_mdiobus_free() <-\ndevres_release_all() <- __device_release_driver(), and that mdiobus was\nnot previously unregistered.\n\nThe Felix VSC9959 switch is a PCI device, so the initial set of\nconstraints that I thought would cause this (I2C or SPI buses which call\n->remove on ->shutdown) do not apply. 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