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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

High severity Unreviewed Published Mar 27, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 28, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

dmaengine: Fix double increment of client_count in dma_chan_get()

The first time dma_chan_get() is called for a channel the channel
client_count is incorrectly incremented twice for public channels,
first in balance_ref_count(), and again prior to returning. This
results in an incorrect client count which will lead to the
channel resources not being freed when they should be. A simple
test of repeated module load and unload of async_tx on a Dell
Power Edge R7425 also shows this resulting in a kref underflow
warning.

[ 124.329662] async_tx: api initialized (async)
[ 129.000627] async_tx: api initialized (async)
[ 130.047839] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 130.052472] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
[ 130.057279] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 19364 at lib/refcount.c:28
refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110
[ 130.065811] Modules linked in: async_tx(-) rfkill intel_rapl_msr
intel_rapl_common amd64_edac edac_mce_amd ipmi_ssif kvm_amd dcdbas kvm
mgag200 drm_shmem_helper acpi_ipmi irqbypass drm_kms_helper ipmi_si
syscopyarea sysfillrect rapl pcspkr ipmi_devintf sysimgblt fb_sys_fops
k10temp i2c_piix4 ipmi_msghandler acpi_power_meter acpi_cpufreq vfat
fat drm fuse xfs libcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi sg ahci crct10dif_pclmul
libahci crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel igb megaraid_sas
i40e libata i2c_algo_bit ccp sp5100_tco dca dm_mirror dm_region_hash
dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: async_tx]
[ 130.117361] CPU: 3 PID: 19364 Comm: modprobe Kdump: loaded Not
tainted 5.14.0-185.el9.x86_64 #1
[ 130.126091] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7425/02MJ3T, BIOS
1.18.0 01/17/2022
[ 130.133806] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110
[ 130.139041] Code: 01 01 e8 6d bd 55 00 0f 0b e9 72 9d 8a 00 80 3d
26 18 9c 01 00 75 85 48 c7 c7 f8 a3 03 9d c6 05 16 18 9c 01 01 e8 4a
bd 55 00 <0f> 0b e9 4f 9d 8a 00 80 3d 01 18 9c 01 00 0f 85 5e ff ff ff
48 c7
[ 130.157807] RSP: 0018:ffffbf98898afe68 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 130.163036] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9da06028e598 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 130.170172] RDX: ffff9daf9de26480 RSI: ffff9daf9de198a0 RDI: ffff9daf9de198a0
[ 130.177316] RBP: ffff9da7cddf3970 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000ffff7fff
[ 130.184459] R10: ffffbf98898afd00 R11: ffffffff9d9e8c28 R12: ffff9da7cddf1970
[ 130.191596] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 130.198739] FS: 00007f646435c740(0000) GS:ffff9daf9de00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 130.206832] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 130.212586] CR2: 00007f6463b214f0 CR3: 00000008ab98c000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
[ 130.219729] Call Trace:
[ 130.222192]
[ 130.224305] dma_chan_put+0x10d/0x110
[ 130.227988] dmaengine_put+0x7a/0xa0
[ 130.231575] __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x178/0x280
[ 130.237157] ? syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x145/0x1d0
[ 130.242652] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x90
[ 130.246240] ? exc_page_fault+0x62/0x150
[ 130.250178] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[ 130.255243] RIP: 0033:0x7f6463a3f5ab
[ 130.258830] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 75 a8 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 b0 00 00
00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 45 a8 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89
01 48
[ 130.277591] RSP: 002b:00007fff22f972c8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX:
00000000000000b0
[ 130.285164] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055b6786edd40 RCX: 00007f6463a3f5ab
[ 130.292303] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000800 RDI: 000055b6786edda8
[ 130.299443] RBP: 000055b6786edd40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 130.306584] R10: 00007f6463b9eac0 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 000055b6786edda8
[ 130.313731] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000055b6786edda8 R15: 00007fff22f995f8
[ 130.320875]
[ 130.323081] ---[ end trace eff7156d56b5cf25 ]---

cat /sys/class/dma/dma0chan*/in_use would get the wrong result.
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Test-by: Jie Hai [email protected]

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 27, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 27, 2025
Last updated Mar 28, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(1st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-49753

GHSA ID

GHSA-c6c6-6xm6-jhp9

Source code

No known source code

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