CVE-2022-49894
Published: May 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Fix region HPA ordering validation Some regions may not have any address space allocated. Skip them when validating HPA order otherwise a crash like the following may result: devm_cxl_add_region: cxl_acpi cxl_acpi.0: decoder3.4: created region9 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [..] RIP: 0010:store_targetN+0x655/0x1740 [cxl_core] [..] Call Trace: <TASK> kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x144/0x200 vfs_write+0x24a/0x4d0 ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90 store_targetN+0x655/0x1740: alloc_region_ref at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:676 (inlined by) cxl_port_attach_region at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:850 (inlined by) cxl_region_attach at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1290 (inlined by) attach_target at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1410 (inlined by) store_targetN at drivers/cxl/core/region.c:1453
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0 - < 12316b9f7c18138ae656050cfd716728e27b7e2faffected 384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0 - < a90accb358ae33ea982a35595573f7a045993f8b |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.0unaffected 0 - < 6.0unaffected 6.0.8 - <= 6.0.*unaffected 6.1 - <= * |
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