vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2022-48751: kernel: net/smc: Transitional solution for clcsock race issue
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jun 20, 2024 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: Transitional solution for clcsock race issue
We encountered a crash in smc_setsockopt() and it is caused by
accessing smc->clcsock after clcsock was released.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 50309 Comm: nginx Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E 5.16.0-rc4+ #53
RIP: 0010:smc_setsockopt+0x59/0x280 [smc]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__sys_setsockopt+0xfc/0x190
__x64_sys_setsockopt+0x20/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x34/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f16ba83918e
</TASK>
This patch tries to fix it by holding clcsock_release_lock and
checking whether clcsock has already been released before access.
In case that a crash of the same reason happens in smc_getsockopt()
or smc_switch_to_fallback(), this patch also checkes smc->clcsock
in them too. And the caller of smc_switch_to_fallback() will identify
whether fallback succeeds according to the return value.
Solution
References
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