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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49808"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:34.130Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:07:11.386Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
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-2022-49808"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49808.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49808"
title: "net: dsa: don't leak tagger-owned storage on switch driver unbind"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: dsa: don't leak tagger-owned storage on switch driver unbind\n\nIn the initial commit dc452a471dba (\"net: dsa: introduce tagger-owned\nstorage for private and shared data\"), we had a call to\ntag_ops-\u003edisconnect(dst) issued from dsa_tree_free(), which is called at\ntree teardown time.\n\nThere were problems with connecting to a switch tree as a whole, so this\ngot reworked to connecting to individual switches within the tree. In\nthis process, tag_ops-\u003edisconnect(ds) was made to be called only from\nswitch.c (cross-chip notifiers emitted as a result of dynamic tag proto\nchanges), but the normal driver teardown code path wasn't replaced with\nanything.\n\nSolve this problem by adding a function that does the opposite of\ndsa_switch_setup_tag_protocol(), which is called from the equivalent\nspot in dsa_switch_teardown(). The positioning here also ensures that we\nwon't have any use-after-free in tagging protocol (*rcv) ops, since the\nteardown sequence is as follows:\n\ndsa_tree_teardown\n-\u003e dsa_tree_teardown_master\n   -\u003e dsa_master_teardown\n      -\u003e unsets master-\u003edsa_ptr, making no further packets match the\n         ETH_P_XDSA packet type handler\n-\u003e dsa_tree_teardown_ports\n   -\u003e dsa_port_teardown\n      -\u003e dsa_slave_destroy\n         -\u003e unregisters DSA net devices, there is even a synchronize_net()\n            in unregister_netdevice_many()\n-\u003e dsa_tree_teardown_switches\n   -\u003e dsa_switch_teardown\n      -\u003e dsa_switch_teardown_tag_protocol\n         -\u003e finally frees the tagger-owned storage"
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