Riskcovery

CVE-2022-50498

eth: alx: take rtnl_lock on resume

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 4, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 4, 2025

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Description

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

eth: alx: take rtnl_lock on resume

Zbynek reports that alx trips an rtnl assertion on resume:

RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (2891) RIP: 0010:netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0x1ac/0x1c0 Call Trace: <TASK> __alx_open+0x230/0x570 [alx] alx_resume+0x54/0x80 [alx] ? pci_legacy_resume+0x80/0x80 dpm_run_callback+0x4a/0x150 device_resume+0x8b/0x190 async_resume+0x19/0x30 async_run_entry_fn+0x30/0x130 process_one_work+0x1e5/0x3b0

indeed the driver does not hold rtnl_lock during its internal close and re-open functions during suspend/resume. Note that this is not a huge bug as the driver implements its own locking, and does not implement changing the number of queues, but we need to silence the splat.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4a5fe57e775188be96359a1934501be45fe5f705 to before 6f1991a940b90753b34570f093a21dba366e8cc0Affected
  • 4a5fe57e775188be96359a1934501be45fe5f705 to before a845a0c4bdece2c0073ecea2fca7c4d5f0550f78Affected
  • 4a5fe57e775188be96359a1934501be45fe5f705 to before c0323c0fd07804d5874699e93f935cda0d989c67Affected
  • 4a5fe57e775188be96359a1934501be45fe5f705 to before 6ad1c94e1e7e374d88f0cfd77936dddb8339aabaAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not affected
  • 5.15.75 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.17 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0.3 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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