CVE-2022-50058

published 2025-06-18

CVE-2022-50058: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa_sim_blk: set number of address spaces and virtqueue groups Commit bda324fd037a…

Priority P4 19 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

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

vdpa_sim_blk: set number of address spaces and virtqueue groups

Commit bda324fd037a ("vdpasim: control virtqueue support") added two
new fields (nas, ngroups) to vdpasim_dev_attr, but we forgot to
initialize them for vdpa_sim_blk.

When creating a new vdpa_sim_blk device this causes the kernel
to panic in this way:
$ vdpa dev add mgmtdev vdpasim_blk name blk0
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000030
...
RIP: 0010:vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx+0x41/0x220 [vhost_iotlb]
...
Call Trace:

vhost_iotlb_add_range+0x11/0x800 [vhost_iotlb]
vdpasim_map_range+0x91/0xd0 [vdpa_sim]
vdpasim_alloc_coherent+0x56/0x90 [vdpa_sim]
...

This happens because vdpasim->iommu[0] is not initialized when
dev_attr.nas is 0.

Let's fix this issue by initializing both (nas, ngroups) to 1 for
vdpa_sim_blk.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 6.0.2-1 (bookworm)	linux 6.0.2-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux	—	—
linux	linux	>= bda324fd037a6b0d44da5699574ce741ca161bc4 < a291c7d289fac2cb13fb2614a9a251afbbd86ce9	a291c7d289fac2cb13fb2614a9a251afbbd86ce9
linux	linux	>= bda324fd037a6b0d44da5699574ce741ca161bc4 < 19cd4a5471b8eaa4bd161b0fdb4567f2fc88d809	19cd4a5471b8eaa4bd161b0fdb4567f2fc88d809
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.0.2-1	6.0.2-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.0.2-1	6.0.2-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 6.0.2-1	6.0.2-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 5.19 < 5.19.4	5.19.4

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

osv 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 5.5 MEDIUM

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