{"id":"CVE-2022-49625","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-49625","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:53:40.058Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sfc: fix kernel panic when creating VF When creating VFs a kernel panic can happen when calling to efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsfc: fix kernel panic when creating VF\n\nWhen creating VFs a kernel panic can happen when calling to\nefx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf.\n\nWhen releasing a DMA coherent buffer, sometimes, I don't know in what\nspecific circumstances, it has to unmap memory with vunmap. It is\ndisallowed to do that in IRQ context or with BH disabled. Otherwise, we\nhit this line in vunmap, causing the crash:\n  BUG_ON(in_interrupt());\n\nThis patch reenables BH to release the buffer.\n\nLog messages when the bug is hit:\n kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:2727!\n invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 6 PID: 1462 Comm: NetworkManager Kdump: loaded Tainted: G          I      --------- ---  5.14.0-119.el9.x86_64 #1\n Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/06WXJT, BIOS 2.8.2 08/27/2020\n RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x2e/0x30\n ...skip...\n Call Trace:\n  __iommu_dma_free+0x96/0x100\n  efx_nic_free_buffer+0x2b/0x40 [sfc]\n  efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf+0x14a/0x1c0 [sfc]\n  efx_ef10_update_stats_vf+0x18/0x40 [sfc]\n  efx_start_all+0x15e/0x1d0 [sfc]\n  efx_net_open+0x5a/0xe0 [sfc]\n  __dev_open+0xe7/0x1a0\n  __dev_change_flags+0x1d7/0x240\n  dev_change_flags+0x21/0x60\n  ...skip...","published":"2025-02-26T07:01:38.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:18:40.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00287,"percentile":0.21087,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16662524ec5da801fb78a1afcaf6e782f1cf103a","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68e5f32f0de9594629ff9e599294d9801c6187de","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82bcb730f856086f033e6c04082eb4503d4c2fa4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ada74c5539eba06cf8b47d068f92e0b3963a9a6e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b82e4ad58a7fb72456503958a93060f87896e629","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9072305270579a9d6afc9b926166231e5b1a7c8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9840212a9c00507347c703f4fdeda16400407e0","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da346adcf5573fd8663cabfdfe8371009629a906","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49625","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}