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🛡️ CVE-2022-50818 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
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Description

scsi: pm8001: Fix running_req for internal abort commands

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

scsi: pm8001: Fix running_req for internal abort commands

Disabling the remote phy for a SATA disk causes a hang:

root@(none)$ more /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-0:0:8/target_port_protocols

sata

root@(none)$ echo 0 > sys/class/sas_phy/phy-0:0:8/enable

root@(none)$ [ 67.855950] sas: ex 500e004aaaaaaa1f phy08 change count has changed

[ 67.920585] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Synchronizing SCSI cache

[ 67.925780] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=DRIVER_OK

[ 67.935094] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Stopping disk

[ 67.939305] sd 0:0:2:0: [sdc] Start/Stop Unit failed: Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=DRIVER_OK

...

[ 123.998998] INFO: task kworker/u192:1:642 blocked for more than 30 seconds.

[ 124.005960] Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1-205202-gf26f8f761e83 #218

[ 124.012049] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

[ 124.019872] task:kworker/u192:1 state:D stack:0 pid: 642 ppid: 2 flags:0x00000008

[ 124.028223] Workqueue: 0000:04:00.0_event_q sas_port_event_worker

[ 124.034319] Call trace:

[ 124.036758] __switch_to+0x128/0x278

[ 124.040333] __schedule+0x434/0xa58

[ 124.043820] schedule+0x94/0x138

[ 124.047045] schedule_timeout+0x2fc/0x368

[ 124.051052] wait_for_completion+0xdc/0x200

[ 124.055234] __flush_workqueue+0x1a8/0x708

[ 124.059328] sas_porte_broadcast_rcvd+0xa8/0xc0

[ 124.063858] sas_port_event_worker+0x60/0x98

[ 124.068126] process_one_work+0x3f8/0x660

[ 124.072134] worker_thread+0x70/0x700

[ 124.075793] kthread+0x1a4/0x1b8

[ 124.079014] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

The issue is that the per-device running_req read in

pm8001_dev_gone_notify() never goes to zero and we never make progress.

This is caused by missing accounting for running_req for when an internal

abort command completes.

In commit 2cbbf489778e ("scsi: pm8001: Use libsas internal abort support")

we started to send internal abort commands as a proper sas_task. In this

when we deliver a sas_task to HW the per-device running_req is incremented

in pm8001_queue_command(). However it is never decremented for internal

abort commnds, so decrement in pm8001_mpi_task_abort_resp().

Affected software

CVE-2022-50818 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 5.20.0 up to 6.0.3)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 30 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. 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)

Other advisories for this package

kernel has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2022-50818 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 5.20.0 6.0.3
unknown

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