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CVE-2022-49856
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: tun: call napi_schedule_prep() to ensure we own a napi A recent patch exposed another issue in napi_get_frags() caught by syzbot [1] Before feeding packets to GRO, and calling napi_complete() we must first grab NAPI_STATE_SCHED. [1] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3612 at net/core/dev.c:6076 napi_complete_done+0x45b/0x880 net/core/dev.c:6076 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 3612 Comm: syz-executor408 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3-syzkaller-00175-g1118b2049d77 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 RIP: 0010:napi_complete_done+0x45b/0x880 net/core/dev.c:6076 Code: c1 ea 03 0f b6 14 02 4c 89 f0 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 24 04 00 00 41 89 5d 1c e9 73 fc ff ff e8 b5 53 22 fa <0f> 0b e9 82 fe ff ff e8 a9 53 22 fa 48 8b 5c 24 08 31 ff 48 89 de RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c4f920 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000030 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff8880251c0000 RSI: ffffffff875a58db RDI: 0000000000000007 RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff888072d02628 R13: ffff888072d02618 R14: ffff888072d02634 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000555555f13300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055c44d3892b8 CR3: 00000000172d2000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> napi_complete include/linux/netdevice.h:510 [inline] tun_get_user+0x206d/0x3a60 drivers/net/tun.c:1980 tun_chr_write_iter+0xdb/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:2027 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2191 [inline] do_iter_readv_writev+0x20b/0x3b0 fs/read_write.c:735 do_iter_write+0x182/0x700 fs/read_write.c:861 vfs_writev+0x1aa/0x630 fs/read_write.c:934 do_writev+0x133/0x2f0 fs/read_write.c:977 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7f37021a3c19
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kernel.org
Date Record Created
20250501 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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