CVE-2022-49895
Published: May 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Fix decoder allocation crash When an intermediate port's decoders have been exhausted by existing regions, and creating a new region with the port in question in it's hierarchical path is attempted, cxl_port_attach_region() fails to find a port decoder (as would be expected), and drops into the failure / cleanup path. However, during cleanup of the region reference, a sanity check attempts to dereference the decoder, which in the above case didn't exist. This causes a NULL pointer dereference BUG. To fix this, refactor the decoder allocation and de-allocation into helper routines, and in this 'free' routine, check that the decoder, @cxld, is valid before attempting any operations on it.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0 - < c6813b5610ac53af73edd87a660d23a0511faa47affected 384e624bb211b406db40edc900bb51af8bb267d0 - < 71ee71d7adcba648077997a29a91158d20c40b09 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.0unaffected 0 - < 6.0unaffected 6.0.8 - <= 6.0.*unaffected 6.1 - <= * |
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