# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49400"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:12:28.139Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:22:08.026Z"
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-2022-49400"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49400.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49400"
title: "md: Don't set mddev private to NULL in raid0 pers-\u003efree"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmd: Don't set mddev private to NULL in raid0 pers-\u003efree\n\nIn normal stop process, it does like this:\n   do_md_stop\n      |\n   __md_stop (pers-\u003efree(); mddev-\u003eprivate=NULL)\n      |\n   md_free (free mddev)\n__md_stop sets mddev-\u003eprivate to NULL after pers-\u003efree. The raid device\nwill be stopped and mddev memory is free. But in reshape, it doesn't\nfree the mddev and mddev will still be used in new raid.\n\nIn reshape, it first sets mddev-\u003eprivate to new_pers and then runs\nold_pers-\u003efree(). Now raid0 sets mddev-\u003eprivate to NULL in raid0_free.\nThe new raid can't work anymore. It will panic when dereference\nmddev-\u003eprivate because of NULL pointer dereference.\n\nIt can panic like this:\n[63010.814972] kernel BUG at drivers/md/raid10.c:928!\n[63010.819778] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n[63010.825011] CPU: 3 PID: 44437 Comm: md0_resync Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-86.el9.x86_64 #1\n[63010.833789] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R6415/07YXFK, BIOS 1.15.0 09/11/2020\n[63010.841440] RIP: 0010:raise_barrier+0x161/0x170 [raid10]\n[63010.865508] RSP: 0018:ffffc312408bbc10 EFLAGS: 00010246\n[63010.870734] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa00bf7d39800 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[63010.877866] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffa00bf7d39800\n[63010.884999] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: fffffa4945e74400 R09: 0000000000000000\n[63010.892132] R10: ffffa00eed02f798 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffa00bbc435200\n[63010.899266] R13: ffffa00bf7d39800 R14: 0000000000000400 R15: 0000000000000003\n[63010.906399] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa00eed000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[63010.914485] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[63010.920229] CR2: 00007f5cfbe99828 CR3: 0000000105efe000 CR4: 00000000003506e0\n[63010.927363] Call Trace:\n[63010.929822]  ? bio_reset+0xe/0x40\n[63010.933144]  ? raid10_alloc_init_r10buf+0x60/0xa0 [raid10]\n[63010.938629]  raid10_sync_request+0x756/0x1610 [raid10]\n[63010.943770]  md_do_sync.cold+0x3e4/0x94c\n[63010.947698]  md_thread+0xab/0x160\n[63010.951024]  ? md_write_inc+0x50/0x50\n[63010.954688]  kthread+0x149/0x170\n[63010.957923]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40\n[63010.962107]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30\n\nRemoving the code that sets mddev-\u003eprivate to NULL in raid0 can fix\nproblem."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"00e3d58f50a875343124bcf5a9637520a492b0d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f63fd1e0e0fc158023cc67ea6a07e278019061ba"},{"version":"0c031fd37f69deb0cd8c43bbfcfccd62ebd7e952","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7a51df785031cc49caf1c59766ca89cfa97b54b"},{"version":"0c031fd37f69deb0cd8c43bbfcfccd62ebd7e952","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7da3454a65f8a56e65dfb44fa0ccac08cbc2f5a1"},{"version":"0c031fd37f69deb0cd8c43bbfcfccd62ebd7e952","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f2571ad7a30ff6b33cde142439f9378669f8b4f"},{"version":"92053ae0398a58c6914e807d5e070297ba8cfe88","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.46"},{"version":"5.16.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"5.15.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"5.17.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.17.*"},{"version":"5.18.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.18.*"},{"version":"5.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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