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Unscored CVE-2022-49513 EUVD-2022-54716GHSA-33xc-w6xp-76j4

cpufreq: governor: Use kobject release() method to free dbs_data

Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

cpufreq: governor: Use kobject release() method to free dbs_data

The struct dbs_data embeds a struct gov_attr_set and
the struct gov_attr_set embeds a kobject. Since every kobject must have
a release() method and we can't use kfree() to free it directly,
so introduce cpufreq_dbs_data_release() to release the dbs_data via
the kobject::release() method. This fixes the calltrace like below:

ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x34
WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 810 at lib/debugobjects.c:505 debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
Modules linked in:
CPU: 12 PID: 810 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.16.0-next-20220120-yocto-standard+ #536
Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)
pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
lr : debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
sp : ffff80001dfcf9a0
x29: ffff80001dfcf9a0 x28: 0000000000000001 x27: ffff0001464f0000
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff8000090e3f00 x24: ffff80000af60210
x23: ffff8000094dfb78 x22: ffff8000090e3f00 x21: ffff0001080b7118
x20: ffff80000aeb2430 x19: ffff800009e8f5e0 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000002 x16: 00004d62e58be040 x15: 013590470523aff8
x14: ffff8000090e1828 x13: 0000000001359047 x12: 00000000f5257d14
x11: 0000000000040591 x10: 0000000066c1ffea x9 : ffff8000080d15e0
x8 : ffff80000a1765a8 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : ffff800009e8c000 x4 : ffff800009e8c760 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0001474ed040
Call trace:
debug_print_object+0xb8/0x100
__debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x1d0/0x25c
debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x24/0xa0
kfree+0x11c/0x440
cpufreq_dbs_governor_exit+0xa8/0xac
cpufreq_exit_governor+0x44/0x90
cpufreq_set_policy+0x29c/0x570
store_scaling_governor+0x110/0x154
store+0xb0/0xe0
sysfs_kf_write+0x58/0x84
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1c0
new_sync_write+0xf0/0x18c
vfs_write+0x1cc/0x220
ksys_write+0x74/0x100
__arm64_sys_write+0x28/0x3c
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x58/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x70/0x170
el0_svc+0x54/0x190
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x130
el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4
irq event stamp: 189006
hardirqs last enabled at (189005): [<ffff8000080849d0>] finish_task_switch.isra.0+0xe0/0x2c0
hardirqs last disabled at (189006): [<ffff8000090667a4>] el1_dbg+0x24/0xa0
softirqs last enabled at (188966): [<ffff8000080106d0>] __do_softirq+0x4b0/0x6a0
softirqs last disabled at (188957): [<ffff80000804a618>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x108/0x1a4

[ rjw: Because can be freed by the gov_attr_set_put() in
cpufreq_dbs_governor_exit() now, it is also necessary to put the
invocation of the governor ->exit() callback into the new
cpufreq_dbs_data_release() function. ]

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 4.6 5.15.91

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 5.18.5-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.18.5-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.18.5-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1015.17 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-70.77 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1034.38 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1036.43 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1036.43.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1032.40 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke +1 5.15.0-1031.36 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1018.23 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1028.31 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1028.33 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1023.23 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1033.39 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1027.29 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +31 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1034.38~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1036.43~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1032.40~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-70.77~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1030.35~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1014.14~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1033.39~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1031.35~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1024.29 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1036.39 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux +10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +12 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux-gcp +4 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-azure No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.0.0-284.11.1.el9_2 RHSA-2023:2458
RHEL 9 perf +48 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2 RHSA-2023:2458
RHEL 8 perf +26 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8 RHSA-2023:2951
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-syms +2 4.12.14-122.255.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1293-1
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kernel-default 4.12.14-122.255.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1293-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_67 1-8.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1293-1

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