CVE-2022-49220

dax: make sure inodes are flushed before destroy cache

published February 26, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

dax: make sure inodes are flushed before destroy cache

A bug can be triggered by following command

$ modprobe nd_pmem && modprobe -r nd_pmem

[ 10.060014] BUG dax_cache (Not tainted): Objects remaining in dax_cache on __kmem_cache_shutdown()

[ 10.060938] Slab 0x0000000085b729ac objects=9 used=1 fp=0x000000004f5ae469 flags=0x200000000010200(slab|head|node)

[ 10.062433] Call Trace:

[ 10.062673] dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44

[ 10.062865] slab_err+0x90/0xd0

[ 10.063619] __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x13b/0x2f0

[ 10.063848] kmem_cache_destroy+0x4a/0x110

[ 10.064058] __x64_sys_delete_module+0x265/0x300

This is caused by dax_fs_exit() not flushing inodes before destroy cache.

To fix this issue, call rcu_barrier() before destroy cache.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00269 · 18.1th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:55Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:55Z
    dax: make sure inodes are flushed before destroy cache
    cvelistv5