CVE-2022-50873

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove In vp_vdpa_remove(), the code kfree(&vp_vdpa_mgtdev->mgtdev.id_table) uses a reference of pointer as the argument of kfree, which is the wrong pointer and then may hit cras...

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Published: Dec 30, 2025
Modified: Apr 15, 2026

Description

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

vdpa/vp_vdpa: fix kfree a wrong pointer in vp_vdpa_remove

In vp_vdpa_remove(), the code kfree(&vp_vdpa_mgtdev->mgtdev.id_table) uses
a reference of pointer as the argument of kfree, which is the wrong pointer
and then may hit crash like this:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00ffff003363e30c
Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
Call trace:
rb_next+0x20/0x5c
ext4_readdir+0x494/0x5c4 [ext4]
iterate_dir+0x168/0x1b4
__se_sys_getdents64+0x68/0x170
__arm64_sys_getdents64+0x24/0x30
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc
do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94
el0_svc+0x20/0x30
el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
el0_sync+0x160/0x180
Code: 54000220 f9400441 b4000161 aa0103e0 (f9400821)
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
Starting crashdump kernel...

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