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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49147
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f8cf8f5ccbad25ed6828875b222dbab29d5c272
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b9ac3727e4abb11c9cfbe9c0781fc05dfdd7cfb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1868328dec5ae2cf210111025fcbc71f78dd5ca
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbe2cc4525480ddd20c866bb5c0578071e01451a