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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48658"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-04-28T13:01:12.987Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:51:39.776Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48658"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48658.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48658"
title: "mm: slub: fix flush_cpu_slab()/__free_slab() invocations in task context."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: slub: fix flush_cpu_slab()/__free_slab() invocations in task context.\n\nCommit 5a836bf6b09f (\"mm: slub: move flush_cpu_slab() invocations\n__free_slab() invocations out of IRQ context\") moved all flush_cpu_slab()\ninvocations to the global workqueue to avoid a problem related\nwith deactivate_slab()/__free_slab() being called from an IRQ context\non PREEMPT_RT kernels.\n\nWhen the flush_all_cpu_locked() function is called from a task context\nit may happen that a workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM bit set ends up\nflushing the global workqueue, this will cause a dependency issue.\n\n workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM nvme-delete-wq:nvme_delete_ctrl_work [nvme_core]\n   is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events:flush_cpu_slab\n WARNING: CPU: 37 PID: 410 at kernel/workqueue.c:2637\n   check_flush_dependency+0x10a/0x120\n Workqueue: nvme-delete-wq nvme_delete_ctrl_work [nvme_core]\n RIP: 0010:check_flush_dependency+0x10a/0x120[  453.262125] Call Trace:\n __flush_work.isra.0+0xbf/0x220\n ? __queue_work+0x1dc/0x420\n flush_all_cpus_locked+0xfb/0x120\n __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x2b/0x320\n kmem_cache_destroy+0x49/0x100\n bioset_exit+0x143/0x190\n blk_release_queue+0xb9/0x100\n kobject_cleanup+0x37/0x130\n nvme_fc_ctrl_free+0xc6/0x150 [nvme_fc]\n nvme_free_ctrl+0x1ac/0x2b0 [nvme_core]\n\nFix this bug by creating a workqueue for the flush operation with\nthe WQ_MEM_RECLAIM bit set."
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