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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2022-50476" idYear: 2022 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:16:36.895Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:20:13.817Z" 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-2022-50476" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50476.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50476" title: "ntb_netdev: Use dev_kfree_skb_any() in interrupt context" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntb_netdev: Use dev_kfree_skb_any() in interrupt context\n\nTX/RX callback handlers (ntb_netdev_tx_handler(),\nntb_netdev_rx_handler()) can be called in interrupt\ncontext via the DMA framework when the respective\nDMA operations have completed. As such, any calls\nby these routines to free skb's, should use the\ninterrupt context safe dev_kfree_skb_any() function.\n\nPreviously, these callback handlers would call the\ninterrupt unsafe version of dev_kfree_skb(). This has\nnot presented an issue on Intel IOAT DMA engines as\nthat driver utilizes tasklets rather than a hard\ninterrupt handler, like the AMD PTDMA DMA driver.\nOn AMD systems, a kernel WARNING message is\nencountered, which is being issued from\nskb_release_head_state() due to in_hardirq()\nbeing true.\n\nBesides the user visible WARNING from the kernel,\nthe other symptom of this bug was that TCP/IP performance\nacross the ntb_netdev interface was very poor, i.e.\napproximately an order of magnitude below what was\nexpected. With the repair to use dev_kfree_skb_any(),\nkernel WARNINGs from skb_release_head_state() ceased\nand TCP/IP performance, as measured by iperf, was on\npar with expected results, approximately 20 Gb/s on\nAMD Milan based server. Note that this performance\nis comparable with Intel based servers." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d4460c82177899751975180c268f352893302221"},{"version":"548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd860b39aa7c7b82e6c99b6fdb99d4610ce49d67"},{"version":"548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b78493968ed3cef0326183ed059c55e42f24d5b"},{"version":"548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6b9e09403102bdf8402dae734800e4916c7ea58"},{"version":"548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13286ad1c7c49c606fdcba4cf66f953a1a16c1ca"},{"version":"548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"21296a52caa6a6bad6debdfe40ad81d4f1a27e69"},{"version":"548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14d245da57a11e80277ab455aa9b6dcc5ed38a19"},{"version":"548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07e28a8f450217db679802ebd4de0915556ce846"},{"version":"548c237c0a9972df5d1afaca38aa733ee577128d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f7d78b2b12a9d561f48fa00bab29b40f4616dad"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.9"},{"version":"4.9.337","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.9.*"},{"version":"4.14.303","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.270","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.163","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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