CVE-2022-50554

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Double Queue Request Due to Early Timeout

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-mq: avoid double ->queue_rq() because of early timeout David Jeffery found one double ->queue_rq() issue, so far it can be triggered in VM use case because of long vmexit latency or preempt latency of vCPU pthread or long page fault in vCPU pthread, then block IO req could be timed out before queuing the request to hardware but after calling blk_mq_start_request() during ->queue_rq(), then timeout handler may handle it by requeue, then double ->queue_rq() is caused, and kernel panic. So far, it is driver's responsibility to cover the race between timeout and completion, so it seems supposed to be solved in driver in theory, given driver has enough knowledge. But it is really one common problem, lots of driver could have similar issue, and could be hard to fix all affected drivers, even it isn't easy for driver to handle the race. So David suggests this patch by draining in-progress ->queue_rq() for solving this issue.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel 4.18.0 - 6.0.16linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.1.2linux
Linux/Linux < 4.18
Linux/Linux 12f5b93145450c750f315657ef239a314811aeeb - 7a73c54a3750895888ab586896736c9434e062a1
Linux/Linux 12f5b93145450c750f315657ef239a314811aeeb - 82c229476b8f6afd7e09bc4dc77d89dc19ff7688
Linux/Linux 12f5b93145450c750f315657ef239a314811aeeb - 8b3d6b029a552d2978bbac275303d11419826a69
Linux/Linux 4.18
Linux/Linux 6.0.16 - 6.0.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.2 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2
... and 1 more
Published Oct 07, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026