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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-48731" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-06-20T11:13:19.407Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:45:52.174Z" 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-2022-48731" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48731.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48731" title: "mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes\n\nWhen using devm_request_free_mem_region() and devm_memremap_pages() to\nadd ZONE_DEVICE memory, if requested free mem region's end pfn were\nhuge(e.g., 0x400000000), the node_end_pfn() will be also huge (see\nmove_pfn_range_to_zone()). Thus it creates a huge hole between\nnode_start_pfn() and node_end_pfn().\n\nWe found on some AMD APUs, amdkfd requested such a free mem region and\ncreated a huge hole. In such a case, following code snippet was just\ndoing busy test_bit() looping on the huge hole.\n\n for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn \u003c end_pfn; pfn++) {\n\tstruct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);\n\t\tif (!page)\n\t\t\tcontinue;\n\t...\n }\n\nSo we got a soft lockup:\n\n watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 26s! [bash:1221]\n CPU: 6 PID: 1221 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.15.0-custom #1\n RIP: 0010:pfn_to_online_page+0x5/0xd0\n Call Trace:\n ? kmemleak_scan+0x16a/0x440\n kmemleak_write+0x306/0x3a0\n ? common_file_perm+0x72/0x170\n full_proxy_write+0x5c/0x90\n vfs_write+0xb9/0x260\n ksys_write+0x67/0xe0\n __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nI did some tests with the patch.\n\n(1) amdgpu module unloaded\n\nbefore the patch:\n\n real 0m0.976s\n user 0m0.000s\n sys 0m0.968s\n\nafter the patch:\n\n real 0m0.981s\n user 0m0.000s\n sys 0m0.973s\n\n(2) amdgpu module loaded\n\nbefore the patch:\n\n real 0m35.365s\n user 0m0.000s\n sys 0m35.354s\n\nafter the patch:\n\n real 0m1.049s\n user 0m0.000s\n sys 0m1.042s" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3533ee20e9a0e2e8f60384da7450d43d1c63d1a"},{"version":"4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"352715593e81b917ce1b321e794549815b850134"},{"version":"4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a5389c80992f0001ee505838fe6a8b20897ce96e"},{"version":"4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cebb0aceb21ad91429617a40e3a17444fabf1529"},{"version":"4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c10a0f877fe007021d70f9cada240f42adc2b5db"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"5.4.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.16.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.16.*"},{"version":"5.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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