linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50388: nvme: fix multipath crash caused by flush request when blktrace is enabled

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Message-ID: <2025091852-CVE-2022-50388-02a2@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:34:02 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50388: nvme: fix multipath crash caused by flush request when blktrace is enabled

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

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

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

nvme: fix multipath crash caused by flush request when blktrace is enabled

The flush request initialized by blk_kick_flush has NULL bio,
and it may be dealt with nvme_end_req during io completion.
When blktrace is enabled, nvme_trace_bio_complete with multipath
activated trying to access NULL pointer bio from flush request
results in the following crash:

[ 2517.831677] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001a
[ 2517.835213] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 2517.838724] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 2517.842222] PGD 7b2d51067 P4D 0
[ 2517.845684] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 2517.849125] CPU: 2 PID: 732 Comm: kworker/2:1H Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S                5.15.67-0.cl9.x86_64 #1
[ 2517.852723] Hardware name: XFUSION 2288H V6/BC13MBSBC, BIOS 1.13 07/27/2022
[ 2517.856358] Workqueue: nvme_tcp_wq nvme_tcp_io_work [nvme_tcp]
[ 2517.859993] RIP: 0010:blk_add_trace_bio_complete+0x6/0x30
[ 2517.863628] Code: 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 46 08 31 c9 ba 04 00 10 00 48 8b 80 50 03 00 00 48 8b 78 50 e9 e5 fe ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 49 89 f4 55 <0f> b6 7a 1a 48 89 d5 e8 3e 1c 2b 00 48 89 ee 4c 89 e7 5d 89 c1 ba
[ 2517.871269] RSP: 0018:ff7f6a008d9dbcd0 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 2517.875081] RAX: ff3d5b4be00b1d50 RBX: 0000000002040002 RCX: ff3d5b0a270f2000
[ 2517.878966] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ff3d5b0b021fb9f8 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 2517.882849] RBP: ff3d5b0b96a6fa00 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 2517.886718] R10: 000000000000000c R11: 000000000000000c R12: ff3d5b0b021fb9f8
[ 2517.890575] R13: 0000000002000000 R14: ff3d5b0b021fb1b0 R15: 0000000000000018
[ 2517.894434] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff3d5b42bfc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 2517.898299] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 2517.902157] CR2: 000000000000001a CR3: 00000004f023e005 CR4: 0000000000771ee0
[ 2517.906053] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 2517.909930] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 2517.913761] PKRU: 55555554
[ 2517.917558] Call Trace:
[ 2517.921294]  <TASK>
[ 2517.924982]  nvme_complete_rq+0x1c3/0x1e0 [nvme_core]
[ 2517.928715]  nvme_tcp_recv_pdu+0x4d7/0x540 [nvme_tcp]
[ 2517.932442]  nvme_tcp_recv_skb+0x4f/0x240 [nvme_tcp]
[ 2517.936137]  ? nvme_tcp_recv_pdu+0x540/0x540 [nvme_tcp]
[ 2517.939830]  tcp_read_sock+0x9c/0x260
[ 2517.943486]  nvme_tcp_try_recv+0x65/0xa0 [nvme_tcp]
[ 2517.947173]  nvme_tcp_io_work+0x64/0x90 [nvme_tcp]
[ 2517.950834]  process_one_work+0x1e8/0x390
[ 2517.954473]  worker_thread+0x53/0x3c0
[ 2517.958069]  ? process_one_work+0x390/0x390
[ 2517.961655]  kthread+0x10c/0x130
[ 2517.965211]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
[ 2517.968760]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[ 2517.972285]  </TASK>

To avoid this situation, add a NULL check for req->bio before
calling trace_block_bio_complete.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50388 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 5.10.163 with commit f13301a69ababa6c2236fb4f0393b7e914e7e1e0
	Fixed in 5.15.87 with commit 4df413d46960f11c8c105238cfc3f5ff4c95c003
	Fixed in 6.0.19 with commit fcd2d199486033223e9b2a6a7f9a01dd0327eac3
	Fixed in 6.1.5 with commit 183c2aaef40a91acbaae45c3824d6cde7bb62b10
	Fixed in 6.2 with commit 3659fb5ac29a5e6102bebe494ac789fd47fb78f4

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-2022-50388
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:
	drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h


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/f13301a69ababa6c2236fb4f0393b7e914e7e1e0
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4df413d46960f11c8c105238cfc3f5ff4c95c003
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcd2d199486033223e9b2a6a7f9a01dd0327eac3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/183c2aaef40a91acbaae45c3824d6cde7bb62b10
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3659fb5ac29a5e6102bebe494ac789fd47fb78f4