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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49443"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:12:55.959Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:59:55.294Z"
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-2022-49443"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49443.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49443"
title: "list: fix a data-race around ep-\u003erdllist"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlist: fix a data-race around ep-\u003erdllist\n\nep_poll() first calls ep_events_available() with no lock held and checks\nif ep-\u003erdllist is empty by list_empty_careful(), which reads\nrdllist-\u003eprev.  Thus all accesses to it need some protection to avoid\nstore/load-tearing.\n\nNote INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU() already has the annotation for both prev\nand next.\n\nCommit bf3b9f6372c4 (\"epoll: Add busy poll support to epoll with socket\nfds.\") added the first lockless ep_events_available(), and commit\nc5a282e9635e (\"fs/epoll: reduce the scope of wq lock in epoll_wait()\")\nmade some ep_events_available() calls lockless and added single call under\na lock, finally commit e59d3c64cba6 (\"epoll: eliminate unnecessary lock\nfor zero timeout\") made the last ep_events_available() lockless.\n\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in do_epoll_wait / do_epoll_wait\n\nwrite to 0xffff88810480c7d8 of 8 bytes by task 1802 on cpu 0:\n INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:38 [inline]\n list_splice_init include/linux/list.h:492 [inline]\n ep_start_scan fs/eventpoll.c:622 [inline]\n ep_send_events fs/eventpoll.c:1656 [inline]\n ep_poll fs/eventpoll.c:1806 [inline]\n do_epoll_wait+0x4eb/0xf40 fs/eventpoll.c:2234\n do_epoll_pwait fs/eventpoll.c:2268 [inline]\n __do_sys_epoll_pwait fs/eventpoll.c:2281 [inline]\n __se_sys_epoll_pwait+0x12b/0x240 fs/eventpoll.c:2275\n __x64_sys_epoll_pwait+0x74/0x80 fs/eventpoll.c:2275\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x44/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nread to 0xffff88810480c7d8 of 8 bytes by task 1799 on cpu 1:\n list_empty_careful include/linux/list.h:329 [inline]\n ep_events_available fs/eventpoll.c:381 [inline]\n ep_poll fs/eventpoll.c:1797 [inline]\n do_epoll_wait+0x279/0xf40 fs/eventpoll.c:2234\n do_epoll_pwait fs/eventpoll.c:2268 [inline]\n __do_sys_epoll_pwait fs/eventpoll.c:2281 [inline]\n __se_sys_epoll_pwait+0x12b/0x240 fs/eventpoll.c:2275\n __x64_sys_epoll_pwait+0x74/0x80 fs/eventpoll.c:2275\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x44/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae\n\nvalue changed: 0xffff88810480c7d0 -\u003e 0xffff888103c15098\n\nReported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\nCPU: 1 PID: 1799 Comm: syz-fuzzer Tainted: G        W         5.17.0-rc7-syzkaller-dirty #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"bf3b9f6372c45b0fbf24d86b8794910d20170017","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d5d993f16be15d124be7b8ec71b28ef7b7dc3af"},{"version":"bf3b9f6372c45b0fbf24d86b8794910d20170017","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb3e48f7a35033deb9455abe3932e63cb500b9eb"},{"version":"bf3b9f6372c45b0fbf24d86b8794910d20170017","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e039c0b5985999b150594126225e1ee51df7b4c9"},{"version":"bf3b9f6372c45b0fbf24d86b8794910d20170017","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d679ae94fdd5d3ab00c35078f5af5f37e068b03d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"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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