vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-50091): linux vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Jun 18, 2025 | Jun 26, 2025 | Nov 20, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
locking/csd_lock: Change csdlock_debug from early_param to __setup
The csdlock_debug kernel-boot parameter is parsed by the
early_param() function csdlock_debug(). If set, csdlock_debug()
invokes static_branch_enable() to enable csd_lock_wait feature, which
triggers a panic on arm64 for kernels built with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y and
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n.
With CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n, __nr_to_section is called in
static_key_enable() and returns NULL, resulting in a NULL dereference
because mem_section is initialized only later in sparse_init().
This is also a problem for powerpc because early_param() functions
are invoked earlier than jump_label_init(), also resulting in
static_key_enable() failures. These failures cause the warning "static
key 'xxx' used before call to jump_label_init()".
Thus, early_param is too early for csd_lock_wait to run
static_branch_enable(), so changes it to __setup to fix these.
Solutions
References
- CVE-2022-50091
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-50091
- CWE-476
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05de9e2e33b1625c71aee69e353fe906dd2be88a
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c9b26b0df270d4f9246e483a44686fca951a29c
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b480d1e9a8c11ecc1c99dc01814b28e3103bd0a0
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2cbdbe22b5f190055d2d0ae92e7454479343a30
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50091
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