🛡️ CVE-2022-48721 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

net/smc: Forward wakeup to smc socket waitqueue after fallback

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

net/smc: Forward wakeup to smc socket waitqueue after fallback

When we replace TCP with SMC and a fallback occurs, there may be

some socket waitqueue entries remaining in smc socket->wq, such

as eppoll_entries inserted by userspace applications.

After the fallback, data flows over TCP/IP and only clcsocket->wq

will be woken up. Applications can't be notified by the entries

which were inserted in smc socket->wq before fallback. So we need

a mechanism to wake up smc socket->wq at the same time if some

entries remaining in it.

The current workaround is to transfer the entries from smc socket->wq

to clcsock->wq during the fallback. But this may cause a crash

like this:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdead000000000100: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI

CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E 5.16.0+ #107

RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x65/0x170

Call Trace:

<IRQ>

__wake_up_common_lock+0x7a/0xc0

sock_def_readable+0x3c/0x70

tcp_data_queue+0x4a7/0xc40

tcp_rcv_established+0x32f/0x660

? sk_filter_trim_cap+0xcb/0x2e0

tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x10b/0x260

tcp_v4_rcv+0xd2a/0xde0

ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x3b/0x1d0

ip_local_deliver_finish+0x54/0x60

ip_local_deliver+0x6a/0x110

? tcp_v4_early_demux+0xa2/0x140

? tcp_v4_early_demux+0x10d/0x140

ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x49/0x60

ip_sublist_rcv+0x19d/0x230

ip_list_rcv+0x13e/0x170

__netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x1c2/0x240

netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1e6/0x320

napi_complete_done+0x11d/0x190

mlx5e_napi_poll+0x163/0x6b0 [mlx5_core]

__napi_poll+0x3c/0x1b0

net_rx_action+0x27c/0x300

__do_softirq+0x114/0x2d2

irq_exit_rcu+0xb4/0xe0

common_interrupt+0xba/0xe0

</IRQ>

<TASK>

The crash is caused by privately transferring waitqueue entries from

smc socket->wq to clcsock->wq. The owners of these entries, such as

epoll, have no idea that the entries have been transferred to a

different socket wait queue and still use original waitqueue spinlock

(smc socket->wq.wait.lock) to make the entries operation exclusive,

but it doesn't work. The operations to the entries, such as removing

from the waitqueue (now is clcsock->wq after fallback), may cause a

crash when clcsock waitqueue is being iterated over at the moment.

This patch tries to fix this by no longer transferring wait queue

entries privately, but introducing own implementations of clcsock's

callback functions in fallback situation. The callback functions will

forward the wakeup to smc socket->wq if clcsock->wq is actually woken

up and smc socket->wq has remaining entries.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2022-48721 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 5.16.0 up to 5.16.8)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 20 June 2024 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2022-48721 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-06-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 5.16.0 5.16.8
linux-kernel

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