CVE-2022-49456
CVE-2022-49456CVE-2022-49456
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bonding: fix missed rcu protection
When removing the rcu_read_lock in bond_ethtool_get_ts_info() as
discussed [1], I didn't notice it could be called via setsockopt,
which doesn't hold rcu lock, as syzbot pointed:
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 3599 Comm: syz-executor317 Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-syzkaller-01392-g01f4685797a5 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
bond_option_active_slave_get_rcu include/net/bonding.h:353 [inline]
bond_ethtool_get_ts_info+0x32c/0x3a0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5595
__ethtool_get_ts_info+0x173/0x240 net/ethtool/common.c:554
ethtool_get_phc_vclocks+0x99/0x110 net/ethtool/common.c:568
sock_timestamping_bind_phc net/core/sock.c:869 [inline]
sock_set_timestamping+0x3a3/0x7e0 net/core/sock.c:916
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |