CVE-2022-48795 parisc: Fix data TLB miss in sba_unmap_sg

Medium 5.5 Published 16 Jul 2024 Updated 11 May 2026

A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's parisc architecture driver causes a system crash, requiring a kernel patch.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2022-48795?

CVE-2022-48795 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

parisc: Fix data TLB miss in sba_unmap_sg

Rolf Eike Beer reported the following bug:

[1274934.746891] Bad Address (null pointer deref?): Code=15 (Data TLB miss fault) at addr 0000004140000018 [1274934.746891] CPU: 3 PID: 5549 Comm: cmake Not tainted 5.15.4-gentoo-parisc64 #4 [1274934.746891] Hardware name: 9000/785/C8000 [1274934.746891] [1274934.746891] YZrvWESTHLNXBCVMcbcbcbcbOGFRQPDI [1274934.746891] PSW: 00001000000001001111111000001110 Not tainted [1274934.746891] r00-03 000000ff0804fe0e 0000000040bc9bc0 00000000406760e4 0000004140000000 [1274934.746891] r04-07 0000000040b693c0 0000004140000000 000000004a2b08b0 0000000000000001 [1274934.746891] r08-11 0000000041f98810 0000000000000000 000000004a0a7000 0000000000000001 [1274934.746891] r12-15 0000000040bddbc0 0000000040c0cbc0 0000000040bddbc0 0000000040bddbc0 [1274934.746891] r16-19 0000000040bde3c0 0000000040bddbc0 0000000040bde3c0 0000000000000007 [1274934.746891] r20-23 0000000000000006 000000004a368950 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 [1274934.746891] r24-27 0000000000001fff 000000000800000e 000000004a1710f0 0000000040b693c0 [1274934.746891] r28-31 0000000000000001 0000000041f988b0 0000000041f98840 000000004a171118 [1274934.746891] sr00-03 00000000066e5800 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000066e5800 [1274934.746891] sr04-07 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [1274934.746891] [1274934.746891] IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000406760e8 00000000406760ec [1274934.746891] IIR: 48780030 ISR: 0000000000000000 IOR: 0000004140000018 [1274934.746891] CPU: 3 CR30: 00000040e3a9c000 CR31: ffffffffffffffff [1274934.746891] ORIG_R28: 0000000040acdd58 [1274934.746891] IAOQ[0]: sba_unmap_sg+0xb0/0x118 [1274934.746891] IAOQ[1]: sba_unmap_sg+0xb4/0x118 [1274934.746891] RP(r2): sba_unmap_sg+0xac/0x118 [1274934.746891] Backtrace: [1274934.746891] [<00000000402740cc>] dma_unmap_sg_attrs+0x6c/0x70 [1274934.746891] [<000000004074d6bc>] scsi_dma_unmap+0x54/0x60 [1274934.746891] [<00000000407a3488>] mptscsih_io_done+0x150/0xd70 [1274934.746891] [<0000000040798600>] mpt_interrupt+0x168/0xa68 [1274934.746891] [<0000000040255a48>] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0xc8/0x278 [1274934.746891] [<0000000040255c34>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x3c/0xd8 [1274934.746891] [<000000004025ecb4>] handle_percpu_irq+0xb4/0xf0 [1274934.746891] [<00000000402548e0>] generic_handle_irq+0x50/0x70 [1274934.746891] [<000000004019a254>] call_on_stack+0x18/0x24 [1274934.746891] [1274934.746891] Kernel panic - not syncing: Bad Address (null pointer deref?)

The bug is caused by overrunning the sglist and incorrectly testing sg_dma_len(sglist) before nents. Normally this doesn't cause a crash, but in this case sglist crossed a page boundary. This occurs in the following code:

while (sg_dma_len(sglist) && nents--) {

The fix is simply to test nents first and move the decrement of nents into the loop.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48795?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-48795?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-48795 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48795 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48795, GHSA-6mpg-cp9m-pv2f, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48795.