Riskcovery

CVE-2022-49262

crypto: octeontx2 - remove CONFIG_DM_CRYPT check

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

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

crypto: octeontx2 - remove CONFIG_DM_CRYPT check

No issues were found while using the driver with dm-crypt enabled. So CONFIG_DM_CRYPT check in the driver can be removed.

This also fixes the NULL pointer dereference in driver release if CONFIG_DM_CRYPT is enabled.

... Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 ... Call trace: crypto_unregister_alg+0x68/0xfc crypto_unregister_skciphers+0x44/0x60 otx2_cpt_crypto_exit+0x100/0x1a0 otx2_cptvf_remove+0xf8/0x200 pci_device_remove+0x3c/0xd4 __device_release_driver+0x188/0x234 device_release_driver+0x2c/0x4c ...

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6f03f0e8b6c8a82d8e740ff3a87ed407ad423243 to before e6374086f249295121384bfaa7cdcc8d461146f0Affected
  • 6f03f0e8b6c8a82d8e740ff3a87ed407ad423243 to before a462214866eebbca87e13ff6d73092b1c4895624Affected
  • 6f03f0e8b6c8a82d8e740ff3a87ed407ad423243 to before a1bf728f3388ac3a2c2dffa57e25622e90b9f6f2Affected
  • 6f03f0e8b6c8a82d8e740ff3a87ed407ad423243 to before 2d841af23ae8f398c85dd1ff2dc24b5ec8ba4569Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not affected
  • 5.15.33 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16.19 through 5.16.*Not affected
  • 5.17.2 through 5.17.*Not affected
  • 5.18 and laterNot affected

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