CVE-2022-50504

powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term()

published October 4, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term()

It's unsafe to use rtas_busy_delay() to handle a busy status from

the ibm,os-term RTAS function in rtas_os_term():

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:618

in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0

preempt_count: 2, expected: 0

CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G D 6.0.0-rc5-02182-gf8553a572277-dirty #9

Call Trace:

[c000000007b8f000] [c000000001337110] dump_stack_lvl+0xb4/0x110 (unreliable)

[c000000007b8f040] [c0000000002440e4] __might_resched+0x394/0x3c0

[c000000007b8f0e0] [c00000000004f680] rtas_busy_delay+0x120/0x1b0

[c000000007b8f100] [c000000000052d04] rtas_os_term+0xb8/0xf4

[c000000007b8f180] [c0000000001150fc] pseries_panic+0x50/0x68

[c000000007b8f1f0] [c000000000036354] ppc_panic_platform_handler+0x34/0x50

[c000000007b8f210] [c0000000002303c4] notifier_call_chain+0xd4/0x1c0

[c000000007b8f2b0] [c0000000002306cc] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xac/0x1c0

[c000000007b8f2f0] [c0000000001d62b8] panic+0x228/0x4d0

[c000000007b8f390] [c0000000001e573c] do_exit+0x140c/0x1420

[c000000007b8f480] [c0000000001e586c] make_task_dead+0xdc/0x200

Use rtas_busy_delay_time() instead, which signals without side effects

whether to attempt the ibm,os-term RTAS call again.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00160 · 4.7th percentile
Published
2025-10-04T15:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 15:43Z
    powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term()
    cvelistv5