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high 7.8

CVE-2022-50752 json

md/raid5: Remove unnecessary bio_put() in raid5_read_one_chunk()

published 2025-12-24 10 mo ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2022-55809

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

md/raid5: Remove unnecessary bio_put() in raid5_read_one_chunk()

When running chunk-sized reads on disks with badblocks duplicate bio free/puts are observed:

============================================================================= BUG bio-200 (Not tainted): Object already free ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allocated in mempool_alloc_slab+0x17/0x20 age=3 cpu=2 pid=7504 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x5a/0xb0 kmem_cache_alloc+0x31e/0x330 mempool_alloc_slab+0x17/0x20 mempool_alloc+0x100/0x2b0 bio_alloc_bioset+0x181/0x460 do_mpage_readpage+0x776/0xd00 mpage_readahead+0x166/0x320 blkdev_readahead+0x15/0x20 read_pages+0x13f/0x5f0 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x18d/0x220 force_page_cache_ra+0x181/0x1c0 page_cache_sync_ra+0x65/0xb0 filemap_get_pages+0x1df/0xaf0 filemap_read+0x1e1/0x700 blkdev_read_iter+0x1e5/0x330 vfs_read+0x42a/0x570 Freed in mempool_free_slab+0x17/0x20 age=3 cpu=2 pid=7504 kmem_cache_free+0x46d/0x490 mempool_free_slab+0x17/0x20 mempool_free+0x66/0x190 bio_free+0x78/0x90 bio_put+0x100/0x1a0 raid5_make_request+0x2259/0x2450 md_handle_request+0x402/0x600 md_submit_bio+0xd9/0x120 __submit_bio+0x11f/0x1b0 submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x204/0x480 submit_bio_noacct+0x32e/0xc70 submit_bio+0x98/0x1a0 mpage_readahead+0x250/0x320 blkdev_readahead+0x15/0x20 read_pages+0x13f/0x5f0 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x18d/0x220 Slab 0xffffea000481b600 objects=21 used=0 fp=0xffff8881206d8940 flags=0x17ffffc0010201(locked|slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) CPU: 0 PID: 34525 Comm: kworker/u24:2 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-localyes-265166-gf11c5343fa3f #143 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 Workqueue: raid5wq raid5_do_work Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x5a/0x78 dump_stack+0x10/0x16 print_trailer+0x158/0x165 object_err+0x35/0x50 free_debug_processing.cold+0xb7/0xbe __slab_free+0x1ae/0x330 kmem_cache_free+0x46d/0x490 mempool_free_slab+0x17/0x20 mempool_free+0x66/0x190 bio_free+0x78/0x90 bio_put+0x100/0x1a0 mpage_end_io+0x36/0x150 bio_endio+0x2fd/0x360 md_end_io_acct+0x7e/0x90 bio_endio+0x2fd/0x360 handle_failed_stripe+0x960/0xb80 handle_stripe+0x1348/0x3760 handle_active_stripes.constprop.0+0x72a/0xaf0 raid5_do_work+0x177/0x330 process_one_work+0x616/0xb20 worker_thread+0x2bd/0x6f0 kthread+0x179/0x1b0 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 </TASK>

The double free is caused by an unnecessary bio_put() in the if(is_badblock(...)) error path in raid5_read_one_chunk().

The error path was moved ahead of bio_alloc_clone() in c82aa1b76787c ("md/raid5: move checking badblock before clone bio in raid5_read_one_chunk"). The previous code checked and freed align_bio which required a bio_put. After the move that is no longer needed as raid_bio is returned to the control of the common io path which performs its own endio resulting in a double free on bad device blocks.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.75, 5.19.17, 6.0.3, 6.1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.0.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50752

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-60.66
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1030.34
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1029.36
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1027.32
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1025.28
  • linux-kvm Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1028.33
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1033.40
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1015.19

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50752

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  • kernel RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • perf RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • rtla RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • bpftool RHEL 9 7.0.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • kernel-64k RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • kernel-core RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • kernel-tools RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
  • python3-perf RHEL 9 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:2458RHSA-2023:2951

  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3
  • kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.142.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1SUSE-SU-2026:0317-1SUSE-SU-2026:0263-1

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-2022-50752 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: md/raid5: Remove unnecessary bio_put() in raid5_read_one_chunk()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +12 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) perf 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, rtla 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-devel-matched 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k-devel-matched 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debug-devel-matched 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2458
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) perf 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8, kernel 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8, bpftool 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8, kernel-core 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8, kernel-tools 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8, python3-perf 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8, +15 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2951
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) bpftool 7.0.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-core 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-tools 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, python3-perf 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, +28 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2458
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 4.18.0-477.10.1.el8_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2951
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2458
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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