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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-48842" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-16T12:25:12.499Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:48:13.309Z" 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-2022-48842" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48842.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48842" title: "ice: Fix race condition during interface enslave" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nice: Fix race condition during interface enslave\n\nCommit 5dbbbd01cbba83 (\"ice: Avoid RTNL lock when re-creating\nauxiliary device\") changes a process of re-creation of aux device\nso ice_plug_aux_dev() is called from ice_service_task() context.\nThis unfortunately opens a race window that can result in dead-lock\nwhen interface has left LAG and immediately enters LAG again.\n\nReproducer:\n```\n#!/bin/sh\n\nip link add lag0 type bond mode 1 miimon 100\nip link set lag0\n\nfor n in {1..10}; do\n echo Cycle: $n\n ip link set ens7f0 master lag0\n sleep 1\n ip link set ens7f0 nomaster\ndone\n```\n\nThis results in:\n[20976.208697] Workqueue: ice ice_service_task [ice]\n[20976.213422] Call Trace:\n[20976.215871] __schedule+0x2d1/0x830\n[20976.219364] schedule+0x35/0xa0\n[20976.222510] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10\n[20976.227043] __mutex_lock.isra.7+0x310/0x420\n[20976.235071] enum_all_gids_of_dev_cb+0x1c/0x100 [ib_core]\n[20976.251215] ib_enum_roce_netdev+0xa4/0xe0 [ib_core]\n[20976.256192] ib_cache_setup_one+0x33/0xa0 [ib_core]\n[20976.261079] ib_register_device+0x40d/0x580 [ib_core]\n[20976.266139] irdma_ib_register_device+0x129/0x250 [irdma]\n[20976.281409] irdma_probe+0x2c1/0x360 [irdma]\n[20976.285691] auxiliary_bus_probe+0x45/0x70\n[20976.289790] really_probe+0x1f2/0x480\n[20976.298509] driver_probe_device+0x49/0xc0\n[20976.302609] bus_for_each_drv+0x79/0xc0\n[20976.306448] __device_attach+0xdc/0x160\n[20976.310286] bus_probe_device+0x9d/0xb0\n[20976.314128] device_add+0x43c/0x890\n[20976.321287] __auxiliary_device_add+0x43/0x60\n[20976.325644] ice_plug_aux_dev+0xb2/0x100 [ice]\n[20976.330109] ice_service_task+0xd0c/0xed0 [ice]\n[20976.342591] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360\n[20976.350536] worker_thread+0x30/0x390\n[20976.358128] kthread+0x10a/0x120\n[20976.365547] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40\n...\n[20976.438030] task:ip state:D stack: 0 pid:213658 ppid:213627 flags:0x00004084\n[20976.446469] Call Trace:\n[20976.448921] __schedule+0x2d1/0x830\n[20976.452414] schedule+0x35/0xa0\n[20976.455559] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10\n[20976.460090] __mutex_lock.isra.7+0x310/0x420\n[20976.464364] device_del+0x36/0x3c0\n[20976.467772] ice_unplug_aux_dev+0x1a/0x40 [ice]\n[20976.472313] ice_lag_event_handler+0x2a2/0x520 [ice]\n[20976.477288] notifier_call_chain+0x47/0x70\n[20976.481386] __netdev_upper_dev_link+0x18b/0x280\n[20976.489845] bond_enslave+0xe05/0x1790 [bonding]\n[20976.494475] do_setlink+0x336/0xf50\n[20976.502517] __rtnl_newlink+0x529/0x8b0\n[20976.543441] rtnl_newlink+0x43/0x60\n[20976.546934] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x2b1/0x360\n[20976.559238] netlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120\n[20976.563079] netlink_unicast+0x196/0x230\n[20976.567005] netlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0\n[20976.570930] sock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50\n[20976.574423] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1eb/0x250\n[20976.586807] ___sys_sendmsg+0x7c/0xc0\n[20976.606353] __sys_sendmsg+0x57/0xa0\n[20976.609930] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0\n[20976.613598] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\n\n1. Command 'ip link ... set nomaster' causes that ice_plug_aux_dev()\n is called from ice_service_task() context, aux device is created\n and associated device-\u003elock is taken.\n2. Command 'ip link ... set master...' calls ice's notifier under\n RTNL lock and that notifier calls ice_unplug_aux_dev(). That\n function tries to take aux device-\u003elock but this is already taken\n by ice_plug_aux_dev() in step 1\n3. Later ice_plug_aux_dev() tries to take RTNL lock but this is already\n taken in step 2\n4. Dead-lock\n\nThe patch fixes this issue by following changes:\n- Bit ICE_FLAG_PLUG_AUX_DEV is kept to be set during ice_plug_aux_dev()\n call in ice_service_task()\n- The bit is checked in ice_clear_rdma_cap() and only if it is not set\n then ice_unplug_aux_dev() is called. If it is set (in other words\n plugging of aux device was requested and ice_plug_aux_dev() is\n potentially running) then the function only clears the\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"41a8c548d47bcdbbd5e0fa40fbb7c95cc54bcb34","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9bbacc53d1f5ed8febbfdf31401d20e005f49ef"},{"version":"6d26421f742345acb6158780dd1e61f945615f06","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1014fc5572375658fa421531cedb6e084f477dc"},{"version":"5dbbbd01cbba831233c6ea9a3e6bfa133606d3c0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5cb1ebdbc4342b1c2ce89516e19808d64417bdbc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15.24","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.30"},{"version":"5.16.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}] ## 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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