CVE-2022-49930 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise RDMA NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

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CVE-2022-49930 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

    May. 01, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

    RDMA/hns: Fix NULL pointer problem in free_mr_init()

    Lock grab occurs in a concurrent scenario, resulting in stepping on a NULL
    pointer. It should be init mutex_init() first before use the lock.

    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
    Call trace:
    __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0xd0/0x5c0
    __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x1c/0x2c
    mutex_lock+0x44/0x50
    free_mr_send_cmd_to_hw+0x7c/0x1c0 [hns_roce_hw_v2]
    hns_roce_v2_dereg_mr+0x30/0x40 [hns_roce_hw_v2]
    hns_roce_dereg_mr+0x4c/0x130 [hns_roce_hw_v2]
    ib_dereg_mr_user+0x54/0x124
    uverbs_free_mr+0x24/0x30
    destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x38/0x74
    uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x48/0x1c4
    uobj_destroy+0x74/0xcc
    ib_uverbs_cmd_verbs+0x368/0xbb0
    ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xec/0x1a4
    __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xb4/0x100
    invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
    el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x58/0x190
    do_el0_svc+0x30/0x90
    el0_svc+0x2c/0xb4
    el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1a4/0x1b0
    el0t_64_sync+0x19c/0x1a0

    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e23e85d86b78e734dd6654f1b69fbaeb5534c81
    Added Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12bcaf87d8b66d8cd812479c8a6349dcb245375c
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