# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49350"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:11:03.514Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:57:59.974Z"
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-2022-49350"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49350.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49350"
title: "net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()\n\nEXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text\nsection is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot\nuse symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up\nwith kernel panic.\n\nmodpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade.\n\nRecently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this\nshowed up in linux-next builds.\n\nThere are two ways to fix it:\n\n  - Remove __init\n  - Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL\n\nI chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site,\ndrivers/net/phy/phy_device.c is never compiled as modular.\n(CONFIG_PHYLIB is boolean)"
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