CVE-2022-49285

iio: accel: mma8452: use the correct logic to get mma8452_data

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

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

iio: accel: mma8452: use the correct logic to get mma8452_data

The original logic to get mma8452_data is wrong, the *dev point to the device belong to iio_dev. we can't use this dev to find the correct i2c_client. The original logic happen to work because it finally use dev->driver_data to get iio_dev. Here use the API to_i2c_client() is wrong and make reader confuse. To correct the logic, it should be like this

struct mma8452_data *data = iio_priv(dev_get_drvdata(dev));

But after commit 8b7651f25962 ("iio: iio_device_alloc(): Remove unnecessary self drvdata"), the upper logic also can't work. When try to show the avialable scale in userspace, will meet kernel dump, kernel handle NULL pointer dereference.

So use dev_to_iio_dev() to correct the logic.

Dual fixes tags as the second reflects when the bug was exposed, whilst the first reflects when the original bug was introduced.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c3cdd6e48e35b7a02f28e301ef30a87ff3cd6527 to before 4c0bb583a4444cce224e8661090cbffc98e2fe07Affected
  • c3cdd6e48e35b7a02f28e301ef30a87ff3cd6527 to before d2d9ebdbff79d87d27652578e6d1638ad3b5f3bfAffected
  • c3cdd6e48e35b7a02f28e301ef30a87ff3cd6527 to before c87b7b12f48db86ac9909894f4dc0107d7df6375Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.4Affected
  • before 4.4Not affected
  • 5.15.54 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.17.2 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18 and laterNot affected

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