linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-50674: riscv: vdso: fix NULL deference in vdso_join

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Message-ID: <2025120947-CVE-2022-50674-023e@gregkh>
Date: Tue,  9 Dec 2025 10:30:59 +0900
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-50674: riscv: vdso: fix NULL deference in vdso_join_timens() when vfork

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

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

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

riscv: vdso: fix NULL deference in vdso_join_timens() when vfork

Testing tools/testing/selftests/timens/vfork_exec.c got below
kernel log:

[    6.838454] Unable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000000020
[    6.842255] Oops [#1]
[    6.842871] Modules linked in:
[    6.844249] CPU: 1 PID: 64 Comm: vfork_exec Not tainted 6.0.0-rc3-rt15+ #8
[    6.845861] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[    6.848009] epc : vdso_join_timens+0xd2/0x110
[    6.850097]  ra : vdso_join_timens+0xd2/0x110
[    6.851164] epc : ffffffff8000635c ra : ffffffff8000635c sp : ff6000000181fbf0
[    6.852562]  gp : ffffffff80cff648 tp : ff60000000fdb700 t0 : 3030303030303030
[    6.853852]  t1 : 0000000000000030 t2 : 3030303030303030 s0 : ff6000000181fc40
[    6.854984]  s1 : ff60000001e6c000 a0 : 0000000000000010 a1 : ffffffff8005654c
[    6.856221]  a2 : 00000000ffffefff a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000
[    6.858114]  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000008 a7 : 0000000000000038
[    6.859484]  s2 : ff60000001e6c068 s3 : ff6000000108abb0 s4 : 0000000000000000
[    6.860751]  s5 : 0000000000001000 s6 : ffffffff8089dc40 s7 : ffffffff8089dc38
[    6.862029]  s8 : ffffffff8089dc30 s9 : ff60000000fdbe38 s10: 000000000000005e
[    6.863304]  s11: ffffffff80cc3510 t3 : ffffffff80d1112f t4 : ffffffff80d1112f
[    6.864565]  t5 : ffffffff80d11130 t6 : ff6000000181fa00
[    6.865561] status: 0000000000000120 badaddr: 0000000000000020 cause: 000000000000000d
[    6.868046] [<ffffffff8008dc94>] timens_commit+0x38/0x11a
[    6.869089] [<ffffffff8008dde8>] timens_on_fork+0x72/0xb4
[    6.870055] [<ffffffff80190096>] begin_new_exec+0x3c6/0x9f0
[    6.871231] [<ffffffff801d826c>] load_elf_binary+0x628/0x1214
[    6.872304] [<ffffffff8018ee7a>] bprm_execve+0x1f2/0x4e4
[    6.873243] [<ffffffff8018f90c>] do_execveat_common+0x16e/0x1ee
[    6.874258] [<ffffffff8018f9c8>] sys_execve+0x3c/0x48
[    6.875162] [<ffffffff80003556>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2
[    6.877484] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

This is because the mm->context.vdso_info is NULL in vfork case. From
another side, mm->context.vdso_info either points to vdso info
for RV64 or vdso info for compat, there's no need to bloat riscv's
mm_context_t, we can handle the difference when setup the additional
page for vdso.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-50674 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 3092eb45637573c5e435fbf5eaf9516316e5f9c6 and fixed in 5.19.17 with commit df30c4feba51beeb138f3518c2421abc8cbda3c1
	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 3092eb45637573c5e435fbf5eaf9516316e5f9c6 and fixed in 6.0.3 with commit f2419a6fbb4caf8cf3fe0ac7e4cf2e28127d04b4
	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 3092eb45637573c5e435fbf5eaf9516316e5f9c6 and fixed in 6.1 with commit a8616d2dc193b6becc36b5f3cfeaa9ac7a5762f9

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-2022-50674
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:
	arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h
	arch/riscv/kernel/vdso.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/df30c4feba51beeb138f3518c2421abc8cbda3c1
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2419a6fbb4caf8cf3fe0ac7e4cf2e28127d04b4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8616d2dc193b6becc36b5f3cfeaa9ac7a5762f9