# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50558"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:18.717Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:21:44.839Z"
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-2022-50558"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50558.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50558"
title: "regmap-irq: Use the new num_config_regs property in regmap_add_irq_chip_fwnode"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nregmap-irq: Use the new num_config_regs property in regmap_add_irq_chip_fwnode\n\nCommit faa87ce9196d (\"regmap-irq: Introduce config registers for irq\ntypes\") added the num_config_regs, then commit 9edd4f5aee84 (\"regmap-irq:\nDeprecate type registers and virtual registers\") suggested to replace\nnum_type_reg with it. However, regmap_add_irq_chip_fwnode wasn't modified\nto use the new property. Later on, commit 255a03bb1bb3 (\"ASoC: wcd9335:\nConvert irq chip to config regs\") removed the old num_type_reg property\nfrom the WCD9335 driver's struct regmap_irq_chip, causing a null pointer\ndereference in regmap_irq_set_type when it tried to index d-\u003etype_buf as\nit was never allocated in regmap_add_irq_chip_fwnode:\n\n[   39.199374] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000\n\n[   39.200006] Call trace:\n[   39.200014]  regmap_irq_set_type+0x84/0x1c0\n[   39.200026]  __irq_set_trigger+0x60/0x1c0\n[   39.200040]  __setup_irq+0x2f4/0x78c\n[   39.200051]  request_threaded_irq+0xe8/0x1a0\n\nUse num_config_regs in regmap_add_irq_chip_fwnode instead of num_type_reg,\nand fall back to it if num_config_regs isn't defined to maintain backward\ncompatibility."
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