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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49147

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 2:00:51 AM

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Added Description

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

block: Fix the maximum minor value is blk_alloc_ext_minor()

ida_alloc_range(..., min, max, ...) returns values from min to max,
inclusive.

So, NR_EXT_DEVT is a valid idx returned by blk_alloc_ext_minor().

This is an issue because in device_add_disk(), this value is used in:
   ddev->devt = MKDEV(disk->major, disk->first_minor);
and NR_EXT_DEVT is '(1 << MINORBITS)'.

So, should 'disk->first_minor' be NR_EXT_DEVT, it would overflow.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f8cf8f5ccbad25ed6828875b222dbab29d5c272
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b9ac3727e4abb11c9cfbe9c0781fc05dfdd7cfb
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1868328dec5ae2cf210111025fcbc71f78dd5ca
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbe2cc4525480ddd20c866bb5c0578071e01451a