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

net: dsa: fix panic when DSA master device unbinds on shutdown

Rafael reports that on a system with LX2160A and Marvell DSA switches,
if a reboot occurs while the DSA master (dpaa2-eth) is up, the following
panic can be seen:

systemd-shutdown[1]: Rebooting.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00a0000800000041
[00a0000800000041] address between user and kernel address ranges
Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 6 PID: 1 Comm: systemd-shutdow Not tainted 5.16.5-00042-g8f5585009b24 #32
pc : dsa_slave_netdevice_event+0x130/0x3e4
lr : raw_notifier_call_chain+0x50/0x6c
Call trace:
dsa_slave_netdevice_event+0x130/0x3e4
raw_notifier_call_chain+0x50/0x6c
call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0x54/0xa0
__dev_close_many+0x50/0x130
dev_close_many+0x84/0x120
unregister_netdevice_many+0x130/0x710
unregister_netdevice_queue+0x8c/0xd0
unregister_netdev+0x20/0x30
dpaa2_eth_remove+0x68/0x190
fsl_mc_driver_remove+0x20/0x5c
__device_release_driver+0x21c/0x220
device_release_driver_internal+0xac/0xb0
device_links_unbind_consumers+0xd4/0x100
__device_release_driver+0x94/0x220
device_release_driver+0x28/0x40
bus_remove_device+0x118/0x124
device_del+0x174/0x420
fsl_mc_device_remove+0x24/0x40
__fsl_mc_device_remove+0xc/0x20
device_for_each_child+0x58/0xa0
dprc_remove+0x90/0xb0
fsl_mc_driver_remove+0x20/0x5c
__device_release_driver+0x21c/0x220
device_release_driver+0x28/0x40
bus_remove_device+0x118/0x124
device_del+0x174/0x420
fsl_mc_bus_remove+0x80/0x100
fsl_mc_bus_shutdown+0xc/0x1c
platform_shutdown+0x20/0x30
device_shutdown+0x154/0x330
__do_sys_reboot+0x1cc/0x250
__arm64_sys_reboot+0x20/0x30
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x4c/0xe0
do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x150
el0_svc+0x24/0xb0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa8/0xb0
el0t_64_sync+0x178/0x17c

It can be seen from the stack trace that the problem is that the
deregistration of the master causes a dev_close(), which gets notified
as NETDEV_GOING_DOWN to dsa_slave_netdevice_event().
But dsa_switch_shutdown() has already run, and this has unregistered the
DSA slave interfaces, and yet, the NETDEV_GOING_DOWN handler attempts to
call dev_close_many() on those slave interfaces, leading to the problem.

The previous attempt to avoid the NETDEV_GOING_DOWN on the master after
dsa_switch_shutdown() was called seems improper. Unregistering the slave
interfaces is unnecessary and unhelpful. Instead, after the slaves have
stopped being uppers of the DSA master, we can now reset to NULL the
master->dsa_ptr pointer, which will make DSA start ignoring all future
notifier events on the master.