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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48796"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-16T11:43:50.796Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:52:23.915Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48796"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48796.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48796"
title: "iommu: Fix potential use-after-free during probe"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu: Fix potential use-after-free during probe\n\nKasan has reported the following use after free on dev-\u003eiommu.\nwhen a device probe fails and it is in process of freeing dev-\u003eiommu\nin dev_iommu_free function, a deferred_probe_work_func runs in parallel\nand tries to access dev-\u003eiommu-\u003efwspec in of_iommu_configure path thus\ncausing use after free.\n\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in of_iommu_configure+0xb4/0x4a4\nRead of size 8 at addr ffffff87a2f1acb8 by task kworker/u16:2/153\n\nWorkqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func\nCall trace:\n dump_backtrace+0x0/0x33c\n show_stack+0x18/0x24\n dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x1e0\n print_address_description+0x84/0x39c\n __kasan_report+0x184/0x308\n kasan_report+0x50/0x78\n __asan_load8+0xc0/0xc4\n of_iommu_configure+0xb4/0x4a4\n of_dma_configure_id+0x2fc/0x4d4\n platform_dma_configure+0x40/0x5c\n really_probe+0x1b4/0xb74\n driver_probe_device+0x11c/0x228\n __device_attach_driver+0x14c/0x304\n bus_for_each_drv+0x124/0x1b0\n __device_attach+0x25c/0x334\n device_initial_probe+0x24/0x34\n bus_probe_device+0x78/0x134\n deferred_probe_work_func+0x130/0x1a8\n process_one_work+0x4c8/0x970\n worker_thread+0x5c8/0xaec\n kthread+0x1f8/0x220\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18\n\nAllocated by task 1:\n ____kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0x114\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x1c\n kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xe4/0x3d4\n __iommu_probe_device+0x90/0x394\n probe_iommu_group+0x70/0x9c\n bus_for_each_dev+0x11c/0x19c\n bus_iommu_probe+0xb8/0x7d4\n bus_set_iommu+0xcc/0x13c\n arm_smmu_bus_init+0x44/0x130 [arm_smmu]\n arm_smmu_device_probe+0xb88/0xc54 [arm_smmu]\n platform_drv_probe+0xe4/0x13c\n really_probe+0x2c8/0xb74\n driver_probe_device+0x11c/0x228\n device_driver_attach+0xf0/0x16c\n __driver_attach+0x80/0x320\n bus_for_each_dev+0x11c/0x19c\n driver_attach+0x38/0x48\n bus_add_driver+0x1dc/0x3a4\n driver_register+0x18c/0x244\n __platform_driver_register+0x88/0x9c\n init_module+0x64/0xff4 [arm_smmu]\n do_one_initcall+0x17c/0x2f0\n do_init_module+0xe8/0x378\n load_module+0x3f80/0x4a40\n __se_sys_finit_module+0x1a0/0x1e4\n __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x44/0x58\n el0_svc_common+0x100/0x264\n do_el0_svc+0x38/0xa4\n el0_svc+0x20/0x30\n el0_sync_handler+0x68/0xac\n el0_sync+0x160/0x180\n\nFreed by task 1:\n kasan_set_track+0x4c/0x84\n kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x4c\n ____kasan_slab_free+0x120/0x15c\n __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x28\n slab_free_freelist_hook+0x204/0x2fc\n kfree+0xfc/0x3a4\n __iommu_probe_device+0x284/0x394\n probe_iommu_group+0x70/0x9c\n bus_for_each_dev+0x11c/0x19c\n bus_iommu_probe+0xb8/0x7d4\n bus_set_iommu+0xcc/0x13c\n arm_smmu_bus_init+0x44/0x130 [arm_smmu]\n arm_smmu_device_probe+0xb88/0xc54 [arm_smmu]\n platform_drv_probe+0xe4/0x13c\n really_probe+0x2c8/0xb74\n driver_probe_device+0x11c/0x228\n device_driver_attach+0xf0/0x16c\n __driver_attach+0x80/0x320\n bus_for_each_dev+0x11c/0x19c\n driver_attach+0x38/0x48\n bus_add_driver+0x1dc/0x3a4\n driver_register+0x18c/0x244\n __platform_driver_register+0x88/0x9c\n init_module+0x64/0xff4 [arm_smmu]\n do_one_initcall+0x17c/0x2f0\n do_init_module+0xe8/0x378\n load_module+0x3f80/0x4a40\n __se_sys_finit_module+0x1a0/0x1e4\n __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x44/0x58\n el0_svc_common+0x100/0x264\n do_el0_svc+0x38/0xa4\n el0_svc+0x20/0x30\n el0_sync_handler+0x68/0xac\n el0_sync+0x160/0x180\n\nFix this by setting dev-\u003eiommu to NULL first and\nthen freeing dev_iommu structure in dev_iommu_free\nfunction."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0c830e6b32826311fc2b9ea1f4679be0f4ef0933","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb86e511e78e796de6947b8f3acca1b7c76fb2ff"},{"version":"0c830e6b32826311fc2b9ea1f4679be0f4ef0933","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65ab30f6a6952fa9ee13009862736cf8d110e6e5"},{"version":"0c830e6b32826311fc2b9ea1f4679be0f4ef0933","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f74fc4b5bd533ea3d30ce47cccb8ef8d21fda85a"},{"version":"0c830e6b32826311fc2b9ea1f4679be0f4ef0933","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b54240ad494300ff0994c4539a531727874381f4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"5.10.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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