CVE-2022-49925

RDMA/core: Fix null-ptr-deref in ib_core_cleanup()

Medium · published May 1, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

RDMA/core: Fix null-ptr-deref in ib_core_cleanup()

KASAN reported a null-ptr-deref error:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]

CPU: 1 PID: 379

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)

RIP: 0010:destroy_workqueue+0x2f/0x740

RSP: 0018:ffff888016137df8 EFLAGS: 00000202

...

Call Trace:

ib_core_cleanup+0xa/0xa1 [ib_core]

__do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x34f/0x5b0

do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

RIP: 0033:0x7fa1a0d221b7

...

It is because the fail of roce_gid_mgmt_init() is ignored:

ib_core_init()

roce_gid_mgmt_init()

gid_cache_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue # fail

...

ib_core_cleanup()

roce_gid_mgmt_cleanup()

destroy_workqueue(gid_cache_wq)

# destroy an unallocated wq

Fix this by catching the fail of roce_gid_mgmt_init() in ib_core_init().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00202 · 9.6th percentile
Published
2025-05-01T14:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 14:11Z
    RDMA/core: Fix null-ptr-deref in ib_core_cleanup()
    cvelistv5