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CVE-2022-50053 — Linux Linux Kernel security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iavf: Fix reset error handling Do not call iavf_close in iavf_reset_task error handling. Doing so can lead to double call of napi_disable, which can lead to deadlock there. Removing VF would lead to iavf_remove task being stuck, because it requires crit_lock, which is held by iavf_close. Call iavf_disable_vf if reset fail, so that driver will clean up remaining invalid resources. During rapid VF resets, HW can fail to setup VF mailbox. Wrong error handling can lead to iavf_remove being stuck with: [ 5218.999087] iavf 0000:82:01.0: Failed to init adminq: -53 ... [ 5267.189211] INFO: task repro.sh:11219 blocked for more than 30 seconds. [ 5267.189520] Tainted: G S E 5.18.0-04958-ga54ce3703613-dirty #1 [ 5267.189764] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 5267.190062] task:repro.sh state:D stack: 0 pid:11219 ppid: 8162 flags:0x00000000 [ 5267.190347] Call Trace: [ 5267.190647] <TASK> [ 5267.190927] __schedule+0x460/0x9f0 [ 5267.191264] schedule+0x44/0xb0 [ 5267.191563] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x14/0x20 [ 5267.191890] __mutex_lock.isra.12+0x6e3/0xac0 [ 5267.192237] ? iavf_remove+…

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2025-06-18
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
linux/kernel
Weaknesses
CWE-667

Affected products

  • linux / linux_kernel
  • linux / linux_kernel / 6.0

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Matched remediation archetype

Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization

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Check exposure

  • Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
  • Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
  • Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.

Remediate safely

  • Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
  • Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
  • Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.

Authoritative sources

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