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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-49441" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:12:54.649Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:22:17.184Z" 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-2022-49441" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49441.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49441" title: "tty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port-\u003elock" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntty: fix deadlock caused by calling printk() under tty_port-\u003elock\n\npty_write() invokes kmalloc() which may invoke a normal printk() to print\nfailure message. This can cause a deadlock in the scenario reported by\nsyz-bot below:\n\n CPU0 CPU1 CPU2\n ---- ---- ----\n lock(console_owner);\n lock(&port_lock_key);\n lock(&port-\u003elock);\n lock(&port_lock_key);\n lock(&port-\u003elock);\n lock(console_owner);\n\nAs commit dbdda842fe96 (\"printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to\nload balance console writes\") said, such deadlock can be prevented by\nusing printk_deferred() in kmalloc() (which is invoked in the section\nguarded by the port-\u003elock). But there are too many printk() on the\nkmalloc() path, and kmalloc() can be called from anywhere, so changing\nprintk() to printk_deferred() is too complicated and inelegant.\n\nTherefore, this patch chooses to specify __GFP_NOWARN to kmalloc(), so\nthat printk() will not be called, and this deadlock problem can be\navoided.\n\nSyzbot reported the following lockdep error:\n\n======================================================\nWARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected\n5.4.143-00237-g08ccc19a-dirty #10 Not tainted\n------------------------------------------------------\nsyz-executor.4/29420 is trying to acquire lock:\nffffffff8aedb2a0 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}, at: console_trylock_spinning kernel/printk/printk.c:1752 [inline]\nffffffff8aedb2a0 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}, at: vprintk_emit+0x2ca/0x470 kernel/printk/printk.c:2023\n\nbut task is already holding lock:\nffff8880119c9158 (&port-\u003elock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: pty_write+0xf4/0x1f0 drivers/tty/pty.c:120\n\nwhich lock already depends on the new lock.\n\nthe existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:\n\n-\u003e #2 (&port-\u003elock){-.-.}-{2:2}:\n __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]\n _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x35/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159\n tty_port_tty_get drivers/tty/tty_port.c:288 [inline] \t\t\u003c-- lock(&port-\u003elock);\n tty_port_default_wakeup+0x1d/0xb0 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:47\n serial8250_tx_chars+0x530/0xa80 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1767\n serial8250_handle_irq.part.0+0x31f/0x3d0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1854\n serial8250_handle_irq drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1827 [inline] \t\u003c-- lock(&port_lock_key);\n serial8250_default_handle_irq+0xb2/0x220 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1870\n serial8250_interrupt+0xfd/0x200 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:126\n __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x109/0xa50 kernel/irq/handle.c:156\n [...]\n\n-\u003e #1 (&port_lock_key){-.-.}-{2:2}:\n __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]\n _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x35/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159\n serial8250_console_write+0x184/0xa40 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3198\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c-- lock(&port_lock_key);\n call_console_drivers kernel/printk/printk.c:1819 [inline]\n console_unlock+0x8cb/0xd00 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504\n vprintk_emit+0x1b5/0x470 kernel/printk/printk.c:2024\t\t\t\u003c-- lock(console_owner);\n vprintk_func+0x8d/0x250 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:394\n printk+0xba/0xed kernel/printk/printk.c:2084\n register_console+0x8b3/0xc10 kernel/printk/printk.c:2829\n univ8250_console_init+0x3a/0x46 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:681\n console_init+0x49d/0x6d3 kernel/printk/printk.c:2915\n start_kernel+0x5e9/0x879 init/main.c:713\n secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:241\n\n-\u003e #0 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}:\n [...]\n lock_acquire+0x127/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4734\n console_trylock_spinning kernel/printk/printk.c:1773 \n---truncated---" affected: 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