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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49884"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:10:30.589Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:56:33.067Z"
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-2022-49884"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49884.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49884"
title: "KVM: Initialize gfn_to_pfn_cache locks in dedicated helper"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: Initialize gfn_to_pfn_cache locks in dedicated helper\n\nMove the gfn_to_pfn_cache lock initialization to another helper and\ncall the new helper during VM/vCPU creation.  There are race\nconditions possible due to kvm_gfn_to_pfn_cache_init()'s\nability to re-initialize the cache's locks.\n\nFor example: a race between ioctl(KVM_XEN_HVM_EVTCHN_SEND) and\nkvm_gfn_to_pfn_cache_init() leads to a corrupted shinfo gpc lock.\n\n                (thread 1)                |           (thread 2)\n                                          |\n kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast                  |\n  read_lock_irqsave(&gpc-\u003elock, ...)      |\n                                          | kvm_gfn_to_pfn_cache_init\n                                          |  rwlock_init(&gpc-\u003elock)\n  read_unlock_irqrestore(&gpc-\u003elock, ...) |\n\nRename \"cache_init\" and \"cache_destroy\" to activate+deactivate to\navoid implying that the cache really is destroyed/freed.\n\nNote, there more races in the newly named kvm_gpc_activate() that will\nbe addressed separately.\n\n[sean: call out that this is a bug fix]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"982ed0de4753ed6e71dbd40f82a5a066baf133ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"61242001d6c9c253df7645dab090842d8da08764"},{"version":"982ed0de4753ed6e71dbd40f82a5a066baf133ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52491a38b2c2411f3f0229dc6ad610349c704a41"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.0.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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