linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50295: io_uring/msg_ring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in io_msg_send

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Message-ID: <2025091557-CVE-2022-50295-8141@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:45:57 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50295: io_uring/msg_ring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in io_msg_send_fd()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

io_uring/msg_ring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in io_msg_send_fd()

Syzkaller produced the below call trace:

 BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0
 Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000070 by task repro/16399

 CPU: 0 PID: 16399 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1 #28
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134
  ? io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0
  kasan_report+0xbc/0xf0
  ? io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0
  kasan_check_range+0x140/0x190
  io_msg_ring+0x3cb/0x9f0
  ? io_msg_ring_prep+0x300/0x300
  io_issue_sqe+0x698/0xca0
  io_submit_sqes+0x92f/0x1c30
  __do_sys_io_uring_enter+0xae4/0x24b0
....
 RIP: 0033:0x7f2eaf8f8289
 RSP: 002b:00007fff40939718 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001aa
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f2eaf8f8289
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000006f71 RDI: 0000000000000004
 RBP: 00007fff409397a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000039
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000004006d0
 R13: 00007fff40939880 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  </TASK>
 Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...

We don't have a NULL check on file_ptr in io_msg_send_fd() function,
so when file_ptr is NUL src_file is also NULL and get_file()
dereferences a NULL pointer and leads to above crash.

Add a NULL check to fix this issue.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50295 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit e6130eba8a848a7a6ba6c534bd8f6d60749ae1a9 and fixed in 6.0.6 with commit 0163e04ea64cc3dfaa12390286e5f2f481c3b2e3
	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit e6130eba8a848a7a6ba6c534bd8f6d60749ae1a9 and fixed in 6.1 with commit 16bbdfe5fb0e78e0acb13e45fc127e9a296913f2

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-50295
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	io_uring/msg_ring.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0163e04ea64cc3dfaa12390286e5f2f481c3b2e3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16bbdfe5fb0e78e0acb13e45fc127e9a296913f2