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CVE-2022-49889

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2022
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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ring-buffer: Check for NULL cpu_buffer in ring_buffer_wake_waiters()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Check for NULL cpu_buffer in ring_buffer_wake_waiters() On some machines the number of listed CPUs may be bigger than the actual CPUs that exist. The tracing subsystem allocates a per_cpu directory with access to the per CPU ring buffer via a cpuX file. But to save space, the ring buffer will only allocate buffers for online CPUs, even though the CPU array will be as big as the nr_cpu_ids. With the addition of waking waiters on the ring buffer when closing the file, the ring_buffer_wake_waiters() now needs to make sure that the buffer is allocated (with the irq_work allocated with it) before trying to wake waiters, as it will cause a NULL pointer dereference. While debugging this, I added a NULL check for the buffer itself (which is OK to do), and also NULL pointer checks against buffer->buffers (which is not fine, and will WARN) as well as making sure the CPU number passed in is within the nr_cpu_ids (which is also not fine if it isn't). Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204705

Scoped product and version facts

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.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
2475de2bc0de17fb1b24c5e90194f84b5ca70d3eaffectedgitb5074df412bf3df9d6ce096b6fa03eb1082d05c9UnavailableNone listed
f4f15344110d0b5b8822ac97bc8200e71939c945affectedgit49ca992f6e50d0f46ec9608f44e011cf3121f389UnavailableNone listed
f3ddb74ad0790030c9592229fb14d8c451f4e9a8affectedgit7433632c9ff68a991bd0bc38cabf354e9d2de410UnavailableNone listed
5544f411a4e8bc39e6a444badbac37dd0e0caf0aaffectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
5.19.17affectedsemver5.20UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
5.15.75affectedsemver5.15.78UnavailableNone listed
6.0.3affectedsemver6.0.8UnavailableNone listed