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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-48728 json

IB/hfi1: Fix AIP early init panic

published 2024-06-20 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-53607

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

IB/hfi1: Fix AIP early init panic

An early failure in hfi1_ipoib_setup_rn() can lead to the following panic:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000001b0 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn RIP: 0010:try_to_grab_pending+0x2b/0x140 Code: 1f 44 00 00 41 55 41 54 55 48 89 d5 53 48 89 fb 9c 58 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 c2 fa 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 55 00 40 84 f6 75 77 <f0> 48 0f ba 2b 00 72 09 31 c0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d c3 48 89 df e8 6c RSP: 0018:ffffb6b3cf7cfa48 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000246 RBX: 00000000000001b0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000246 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000001b0 RBP: ffffb6b3cf7cfa70 R08: 0000000000000f09 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffb6b3cf7cfa90 R14: ffffffff9b2fbfc0 R15: ffff8a4fdf244690 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8a527f400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000000001b0 CR3: 00000017e2410003 CR4: 00000000007706f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: __cancel_work_timer+0x42/0x190 ? dev_printk_emit+0x4e/0x70 iowait_cancel_work+0x15/0x30 [hfi1] hfi1_ipoib_txreq_deinit+0x5a/0x220 [hfi1] ? dev_err+0x6c/0x90 hfi1_ipoib_netdev_dtor+0x15/0x30 [hfi1] hfi1_ipoib_setup_rn+0x10e/0x150 [hfi1] rdma_init_netdev+0x5a/0x80 [ib_core] ? hfi1_ipoib_free_rdma_netdev+0x20/0x20 [hfi1] ipoib_intf_init+0x6c/0x350 [ib_ipoib] ipoib_intf_alloc+0x5c/0xc0 [ib_ipoib] ipoib_add_one+0xbe/0x300 [ib_ipoib] add_client_context+0x12c/0x1a0 [ib_core] enable_device_and_get+0xdc/0x1d0 [ib_core] ib_register_device+0x572/0x6b0 [ib_core] rvt_register_device+0x11b/0x220 [rdmavt] hfi1_register_ib_device+0x6b4/0x770 [hfi1] do_init_one.isra.20+0x3e3/0x680 [hfi1] local_pci_probe+0x41/0x90 work_for_cpu_fn+0x16/0x20 process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360 ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 worker_thread+0x1cf/0x390 ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 kthread+0x116/0x130 ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40

The panic happens in hfi1_ipoib_txreq_deinit() because there is a NULL deref when hfi1_ipoib_netdev_dtor() is called in this error case.

hfi1_ipoib_txreq_init() and hfi1_ipoib_rxq_init() are self unwinding so fix by adjusting the error paths accordingly.

Other changes: - hfi1_ipoib_free_rdma_netdev() is deleted including the free_netdev() since the netdev core code deletes calls free_netdev() - The switch to the accelerated entrances is moved to the success path.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.10.99, 5.15.22, 5.16.8, 5.17
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.16.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48728

  • linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.15.0-1008.11~20.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48728

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1
  • kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1
  • kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1
  • kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1
  • kernel-default SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP5, SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 +5 more 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1
  • kernel-zfcpdump SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1SUSE-SU-2024:2929-1SUSE-SU-2024:2902-1SUSE-SU-2024:2394-1SUSE-SU-2024:2384-1SUSE-SU-2024:2372-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-48728 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: IB/hfi1: Fix AIP early init panic

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
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References

Sources

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