CVE-2022-50721

dmaengine: qcom-adm: fix wrong calling convention for prep_slave_sg

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 24, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

dmaengine: qcom-adm: fix wrong calling convention for prep_slave_sg

The calling convention for pre_slave_sg is to return NULL on error and provide an error log to the system. Qcom-adm instead provide error pointer when an error occur. This indirectly cause kernel panic for example for the nandc driver that checks only if the pointer returned by device_prep_slave_sg is not NULL. Returning an error pointer makes nandc think the device_prep_slave_sg function correctly completed and makes the kernel panics later in the code.

While nandc is the one that makes the kernel crash, it was pointed out that the real problem is qcom-adm not following calling convention for that function.

To fix this, drop returning error pointer and return NULL with an error log.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5c9f8c2dbdbe53818bcde6aa6695e1331e5f841f to before 5653bd0200944e5803fa8e32dc36aa49931312f9Affected
  • 5c9f8c2dbdbe53818bcde6aa6695e1331e5f841f to before 9a041174c58a226e713f6cebd41eccec7a5cfa72Affected
  • 5c9f8c2dbdbe53818bcde6aa6695e1331e5f841f to before b9d2140c3badf4107973ad77c5a0ec3075705c85Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.11Affected
  • before 5.11Not 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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