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CVE-2022-49220 (GCVE-0-2022-49220)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 01:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 18:55
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Title
dax: make sure inodes are flushed before destroy cache
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7b6be8444e0f0dd675b54d059793423d3c9b4c03 , < 770d42fff12d8595adda9025a0b92091f543e775 (git)
Affected: 7b6be8444e0f0dd675b54d059793423d3c9b4c03 , < ec376f5c11c88c0215d173599db8449cd4196759 (git)
Affected: 7b6be8444e0f0dd675b54d059793423d3c9b4c03 , < e2951eaa9398415ac054b7bd80b8163b6838ead4 (git)
Affected: 7b6be8444e0f0dd675b54d059793423d3c9b4c03 , < f2a1e0eb70c2d954176c07d75d28742bde30e9f3 (git)
Affected: 7b6be8444e0f0dd675b54d059793423d3c9b4c03 , < b786abe7c67c6ef71410c8e23292b3091d616ad1 (git)
Affected: 7b6be8444e0f0dd675b54d059793423d3c9b4c03 , < a7e8de822e0b1979f08767c751f6c8a9c1d4ad86 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.189 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.110 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.33 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16.19 , ≤ 5.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.17.2 , ≤ 5.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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