CVE-2022-49257
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2022
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanup In watch_queue_set_size(), the error cleanup code doesn't take account of the fact that __free_page() can't handle a NULL pointer when trying to free up buffer pages that did get allocated. Fix this by only calling __free_page() on the pages actually allocated. Without the fix, this can lead to something like the following: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473 Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000034 by task syz-executor168/3599 ... Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:446 [inline] kasan_report.cold+0x66/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline] kasan_check_range+0x13d/0x180 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline] atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline] page_ref_count include/linux/page_ref.h:67 [inline] put_page_testzero include/linux/mm.h:717 [inline] __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473 watch_queue_set_size+0x499/0x630 kernel/watch_queue.c:275 pipe_ioctl+0xac/0x2b0 fs/pipe.c:632 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:860 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | 5ae75b4ed30322b42abaa75ef1b784addfdb7dc9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | 695c47cea02b9101e2fc2e7d36d552128592b347 | Unavailable | None listed |
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | 112a2f9b0a8457794095a0450598f150724ec456 | Unavailable | None listed |
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | b6f5ad3e45d19f9c4ee3e8a2aff829f28d68591d | Unavailable | None listed |
| c73be61cede5882f9605a852414db559c0ebedfd | affected | git | a635415a064e77bcfbf43da413fd9dfe0bbed9cb | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.8 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.110 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.33 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 5.16.19 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.16.* | None listed |
| 5.17.2 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.17.* | None listed |
| 5.18 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |