CVE-2022-50058

vdpa_sim_blk: set number of address spaces and virtqueue groups

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

vdpa_sim_blk: set number of address spaces and virtqueue groups

Commit bda324fd037a ("vdpasim: control virtqueue support") added two

new fields (nas, ngroups) to vdpasim_dev_attr, but we forgot to

initialize them for vdpa_sim_blk.

When creating a new vdpa_sim_blk device this causes the kernel

to panic in this way:

$ vdpa dev add mgmtdev vdpasim_blk name blk0

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000030

...

RIP: 0010:vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx+0x41/0x220 [vhost_iotlb]

...

Call Trace:

<TASK>

vhost_iotlb_add_range+0x11/0x800 [vhost_iotlb]

vdpasim_map_range+0x91/0xd0 [vdpa_sim]

vdpasim_alloc_coherent+0x56/0x90 [vdpa_sim]

...

This happens because vdpasim->iommu[0] is not initialized when

dev_attr.nas is 0.

Let's fix this issue by initializing both (nas, ngroups) to 1 for

vdpa_sim_blk.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00163 · 5.3th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T11:02Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:02Z
    vdpa_sim_blk: set number of address spaces and virtqueue groups
    cvelistv5