# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49305"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:10:38.212Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:57:07.127Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
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-2022-49305"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49305.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49305"
title: "drivers: staging: rtl8192u: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrivers: staging: rtl8192u: Fix deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop()\n\nThere is a deadlock in ieee80211_beacons_stop(), which is shown below:\n\n   (Thread 1)              |      (Thread 2)\n                           | ieee80211_send_beacon()\nieee80211_beacons_stop()   |  mod_timer()\n spin_lock_irqsave() //(1) |  (wait a time)\n ...                       | ieee80211_send_beacon_cb()\n del_timer_sync()          |  spin_lock_irqsave() //(2)\n (wait timer to stop)      |  ...\n\nWe hold ieee-\u003ebeacon_lock in position (1) of thread 1 and use\ndel_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler\nalso need ieee-\u003ebeacon_lock in position (2) of thread 2.\nAs a result, ieee80211_beacons_stop() will block forever.\n\nThis patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of\nspin_lock_irqsave(), which could let timer handler to obtain\nthe needed lock."
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