CVE-2022-50530

blk-mq: fix null pointer dereference in blk_mq_clear_rq_mapping()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 7, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Oct 7, 2025

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Description

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

blk-mq: fix null pointer dereference in blk_mq_clear_rq_mapping()

Our syzkaller report a null pointer dereference, root cause is following:

__blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs set->tags[hctx_idx] = blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs blk_mq_alloc_rqs // failed due to oom alloc_pages_node // set->tags[hctx_idx] is still NULL blk_mq_free_rqs drv_tags = set->tags[hctx_idx]; // null pointer dereference is triggered blk_mq_clear_rq_mapping(drv_tags, ...)

This is because commit 63064be150e4 ("blk-mq: Add blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs()") merged the two steps:

1) set->tags[hctx_idx] = blk_mq_alloc_rq_map() 2) blk_mq_alloc_rqs(..., set->tags[hctx_idx])

into one step:

set->tags[hctx_idx] = blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs()

Since tags is not initialized yet in this case, fix the problem by checking if tags is NULL pointer in blk_mq_clear_rq_mapping().

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 63064be150e4b1ba1e4af594ef5aa81adf21a52d to before 6a440e6d04431e774dc084abe88c106e2a474c1aAffected
  • 63064be150e4b1ba1e4af594ef5aa81adf21a52d to before 76dd298094f484c6250ebd076fa53287477b2328Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.16Affected
  • before 5.16Not affected
  • 6.0.6 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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