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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50679"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T01:29:32.925Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:23:41.023Z"
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-2022-50679"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50679.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50679"
title: "i40e: Fix DMA mappings leak"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni40e: Fix DMA mappings leak\n\nDuring reallocation of RX buffers, new DMA mappings are created for\nthose buffers.\n\nsteps for reproduction:\nwhile :\ndo\nfor ((i=0; i\u003c=8160; i=i+32))\ndo\nethtool -G enp130s0f0 rx $i tx $i\nsleep 0.5\nethtool -g enp130s0f0\ndone\ndone\n\nThis resulted in crash:\ni40e 0000:01:00.1: Unable to allocate memory for the Rx descriptor ring, size=65536\nDriver BUG\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4300 at net/core/xdp.c:141 xdp_rxq_info_unreg+0x43/0x50\nCall Trace:\ni40e_free_rx_resources+0x70/0x80 [i40e]\ni40e_set_ringparam+0x27c/0x800 [i40e]\nethnl_set_rings+0x1b2/0x290\ngenl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x10f/0x150\ngenl_family_rcv_msg+0xb3/0x160\n? rings_fill_reply+0x1a0/0x1a0\ngenl_rcv_msg+0x47/0x90\n? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x160/0x160\nnetlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120\ngenl_rcv+0x24/0x40\nnetlink_unicast+0x196/0x230\nnetlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0\nsock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50\n__sys_sendto+0xee/0x160\n? handle_mm_fault+0xbe/0x1e0\n? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d3/0x2c0\n__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\ndo_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\nRIP: 0033:0x7f5eac8b035b\nMissing register, driver bug\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4300 at net/core/xdp.c:119 xdp_rxq_info_unreg_mem_model+0x69/0x140\nCall Trace:\nxdp_rxq_info_unreg+0x1e/0x50\ni40e_free_rx_resources+0x70/0x80 [i40e]\ni40e_set_ringparam+0x27c/0x800 [i40e]\nethnl_set_rings+0x1b2/0x290\ngenl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x10f/0x150\ngenl_family_rcv_msg+0xb3/0x160\n? rings_fill_reply+0x1a0/0x1a0\ngenl_rcv_msg+0x47/0x90\n? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x160/0x160\nnetlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120\ngenl_rcv+0x24/0x40\nnetlink_unicast+0x196/0x230\nnetlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0\nsock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50\n__sys_sendto+0xee/0x160\n? handle_mm_fault+0xbe/0x1e0\n? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d3/0x2c0\n__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\ndo_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\nRIP: 0033:0x7f5eac8b035b\n\nThis was caused because of new buffers with different RX ring count should\nsubstitute older ones, but those buffers were freed in\ni40e_configure_rx_ring and reallocated again with i40e_alloc_rx_bi,\nthus kfree on rx_bi caused leak of already mapped DMA.\n\nFix this by reallocating ZC with rx_bi_zc struct when BPF program loads. Additionally\nreallocate back to rx_bi when BPF program unloads.\n\nIf BPF program is loaded/unloaded and XSK pools are created, reallocate\nRX queues accordingly in XSP_SETUP_XSK_POOL handler."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"be1222b585fdc410b8c1dbcc57dd03a00f04eff5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed5baf3d0a33caaca4cd4073ebb0854cc77a616d"},{"version":"be1222b585fdc410b8c1dbcc57dd03a00f04eff5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94a171c982b8a8137a00721c1e62bc2713435bca"},{"version":"be1222b585fdc410b8c1dbcc57dd03a00f04eff5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f499596dfa3db9b3172645b6de9e1096a669c95"},{"version":"be1222b585fdc410b8c1dbcc57dd03a00f04eff5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aae425efdfd1b1d8452260a3cb49344ebf20b1f5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.152","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.76","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.0.6","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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