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medium 5.5

CVE-2022-48840 json

iavf: Fix hang during reboot/shutdown

published 2024-07-16 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-53719

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:

iavf: Fix hang during reboot/shutdown

Recent commit 974578017fc1 ("iavf: Add waiting so the port is initialized in remove") adds a wait-loop at the beginning of iavf_remove() to ensure that port initialization is finished prior unregistering net device. This causes a regression in reboot/shutdown scenario because in this case callback iavf_shutdown() is called and this callback detaches the device, makes it down if it is running and sets its state to __IAVF_REMOVE. Later shutdown callback of associated PF driver (e.g. ice_shutdown) is called. That callback calls among other things sriov_disable() that calls indirectly iavf_remove() (see stack trace below). As the adapter state is already __IAVF_REMOVE then the mentioned loop is end-less and shutdown process hangs.

The patch fixes this by checking adapter's state at the beginning of iavf_remove() and skips the rest of the function if the adapter is already in remove state (shutdown is in progress).

Reproducer: 1. Create VF on PF driven by ice or i40e driver 2. Ensure that the VF is bound to iavf driver 3. Reboot

[52625.981294] sysrq: SysRq : Show Blocked State [52625.988377] task:reboot state:D stack: 0 pid:17359 ppid: 1 f2 [52625.996732] Call Trace: [52625.999187] __schedule+0x2d1/0x830 [52626.007400] schedule+0x35/0xa0 [52626.010545] schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0x83/0x100 [52626.020046] usleep_range+0x5b/0x80 [52626.023540] iavf_remove+0x63/0x5b0 [iavf] [52626.027645] pci_device_remove+0x3b/0xc0 [52626.031572] device_release_driver_internal+0x103/0x1f0 [52626.036805] pci_stop_bus_device+0x72/0xa0 [52626.040904] pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0xe/0x20 [52626.045870] pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0xba/0x120 [52626.050232] sriov_disable+0x2f/0xe0 [52626.053813] ice_free_vfs+0x7c/0x340 [ice] [52626.057946] ice_remove+0x220/0x240 [ice] [52626.061967] ice_shutdown+0x16/0x50 [ice] [52626.065987] pci_device_shutdown+0x34/0x60 [52626.070086] device_shutdown+0x165/0x1c5 [52626.074011] kernel_restart+0xe/0x30 [52626.077593] __do_sys_reboot+0x1d2/0x210 [52626.093815] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0 [52626.097483] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.31, 5.16.17
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.17.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48840

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-37.39
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1011.14
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1008.12
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1008.10
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1007.8
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1010.11
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1010.12
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1011.13

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48840

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

  • kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.63.1
  • kernel-syms-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.63.1
  • kernel-source-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 5.14.21-150500.33.63.1
  • 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

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:2947-1SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1SUSE-SU-2024:2929-1SUSE-SU-2024:2902-1SUSE-SU-2024:2894-1

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-2022-48840 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: iavf: Fix hang during reboot/shutdown

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more 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 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 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
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
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