CVE: CVE-2022-50475
Published: 2025-10-04
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/core: Make sure "ib_port" is valid when access sysfs node

The "ib_port" structure must be set before adding the sysfs kobject,
and reset after removing it, otherwise it may crash when accessing
the sysfs node:
  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address [PII_REDACTED]
  Mem abort info:
    ESR = 0x96000006
    Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
    SET = 0, FnV = 0
    EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  Data abort info:
    ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
    CM = 0, WnR = 0
  user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 00000000e85f5ba5
  [[PII_REDACTED]] pgd=[PII_REDACTED]fd9003, pud=000000085b387003, pmd=[PII_REDACTED]
  Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#2] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in: ib_umad(O) mlx5_ib(O) nfnetlink_cttimeout(E) nfnetlink(E) act_gact(E) cls_flower(E) sch_ingress(E) openvswitch(E) nsh(E) nf_nat_ipv6(E) nf_nat_ipv4(E) nf_conncount(E) nf_nat(E) nf_conntrack(E) nf_defrag_ipv6(E) nf_defrag_ipv4(E) mst_pciconf(O) ipmi_devintf(E) ipmi_msghandler(E) ipmb_dev_int(OE) mlx5_core(O) mlxfw(O) mlxdevm(O) auxiliary(O) ib_uverbs(O) ib_core(O) mlx_compat(O) psample(E) sbsa_gwdt(E) uio_pdrv_genirq(E) uio(E) mlxbf_pmc(OE) mlxbf_gige(OE) mlxbf_tmfifo(OE) gpio_mlxbf2(OE) pwr_mlxbf(OE) mlx_trio(OE) i2c_mlxbf(OE) mlx_bootctl(OE) bluefield_edac(OE) knem(O) ip_tables(E) ipv6(E) crc_ccitt(E) [last unloaded: mst_pci]
  Process grep (pid: 3372, stack limit = 0x[PII_REDACTED]055c92)
  CPU: 5 PID: 3372 Comm: grep Tainted: G      D    OE     4.19.161-mlnx.47.gadcd9e3 #1
  Hardware name: https://www.mellanox.com BlueField SoC/BlueField SoC, BIOS BlueField:3.9.2-15-ga2403ab Sep  8 2022
  pstate: 40000005 (nZcv daif -PAN -UAO)
  pc : hw_stat_port_show+0x4c/0x80 [ib_core]
  lr : port_attr_show+0x40/0x58 [ib_core]
  sp : ffff000029f43b50
  x29: ffff000029f43b50 x28: [PII_REDACTED]
  x27: ffff8007b821a540 x26: ffff000029f43e30
  x25: [PII_REDACTED] x24: ffff000000eaa958
  x23: [PII_REDACTED] x22: ffff8007a4ce3000
  x21: ffff8007baff8000 x20: ffff8007b9066ac0
  x19: ffff8007bae97578 x18: [PII_REDACTED]
  x17: [PII_REDACTED] x16: [PII_REDACTED]
  x15: [PII_REDACTED] x14: [PII_REDACTED]
  x13: [PII_REDACTED] x12: [PII_REDACTED]
  x11: [PII_REDACTED] x10: [PII_REDACTED]
  x9 : [PII_REDACTED] x8 : ffff8007a4ce4000
  x7 : [PII_REDACTED] x6 :[PII_REDACTED]00003f
  x5 : ffff000000e6a280 x4 : ffff8007a4ce3000
  x3 : [PII_REDACTED] x2 : aaaaaaaaaaaaaaab
  x1 : ffff8007b9066a10 x0 : ffff8007baff8000
  Call trace:
   hw_stat_port_show+0x4c/0x80 [ib_core]
   port_attr_show+0x40/0x58 [ib_core]
   sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x8c/0x150
   kernfs_seq_show+0x44/0x50
   seq_read+0x1b4/0x45c
   kernfs_fop_read+0x148/0x1d8
   __vfs_read+0x58/0x180
   vfs_read+0x94/0x154
   ksys_read+0x68/0xd8
   __arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x34
   el0_svc_common+0x88/0x18c
   el0_svc_handler+0x78/0x94
   el0_svc+0x8/0xe8
  Code: f2955562 aa1603e4 aa1503e0 f9405683 (f9402861)
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-476
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e15ff29b156bbbdeadae230c8ecd5ecd8ca2477; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac7a7d7079124f46180714b2d41a1703d37101bb; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd06d32a71fbb198b2d43dddf794badd80ffd25d