vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-50148: kernel: kernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 18, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Nov 20, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove

When lockdep is enabled, lockdep_assert_held_write would
cause potential NULL pointer dereference.

Fix the following smatch warnings:

fs/kernfs/dir.c:1353 __kernfs_remove() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'kn' (see line 1346)

Solution

redhat-upgrade-kernel
Title
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