# CVE-2022-48922: riscv: fix oops caused by irqsoff latency tracer

> A null pointer dereference in the RISC-V Linux kernel causes a system crash during boot when the irqsoff latency tracer is enabled.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 22 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48922, GHSA-cp82-8q86-pm99, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48922

## What is CVE-2022-48922?

CVE-2022-48922 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 Aug 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:

riscv: fix oops caused by irqsoff latency tracer

The trace_hardirqs_{on,off}() require the caller to setup frame pointer
properly. This because these two functions use macro 'CALLER_ADDR1' (aka.
__builtin_return_address(1)) to acquire caller info. If the $fp is used
for other purpose, the code generated this macro (as below) could trigger
memory access fault.

   0xffffffff8011510e <+80>:    ld      a1,-16(s0)
   0xffffffff80115112 <+84>:    ld      s2,-8(a1)  # <-- paging fault here

The oops message during booting if compiled with 'irqoff' tracer enabled:
[    0.039615][    T0] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000f8
[    0.041925][    T0] Oops [#1]
[    0.042063][    T0] Modules linked in:
[    0.042864][    T0] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc1-00233-g9a20c48d1ed2 #29
[    0.043568][    T0] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[    0.044343][    T0] epc : trace_hardirqs_on+0x56/0xe2
[    0.044601][    T0]  ra : restore_all+0x12/0x6e
[    0.044721][    T0] epc : ffffffff80126a5c ra : ffffffff80003b94 sp : ffffffff81403db0
[    0.044801][    T0]  gp : ffffffff8163acd8 tp : ffffffff81414880 t0 : 0000000000000020
[    0.044882][    T0]  t1 : 0098968000000000 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffff81403de0
[    0.044967][    T0]  s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : 0000000000000001 a1 : 0000000000000100
[    0.045046][    T0]  a2 : 0000000000000000 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000
[    0.045124][    T0]  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000054494d45
[    0.045210][    T0]  s2 : ffffffff80003b94 s3 : ffffffff81a8f1b0 s4 : ffffffff80e27b50
[    0.045289][    T0]  s5 : ffffffff81414880 s6 : ffffffff8160fa00 s7 : 00000000800120e8
[    0.045389][    T0]  s8 : 0000000080013100 s9 : 000000000000007f s10: 0000000000000000
[    0.045474][    T0]  s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : 7fffffffffffffff t4 : 0000000000000000
[    0.045548][    T0]  t5 : 0000000000000000 t6 : ffffffff814aa368
[    0.045620][    T0] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 00000000000000f8 cause: 000000000000000d
[    0.046402][    T0] [<ffffffff80003b94>] restore_all+0x12/0x6e

This because the $fp(aka. $s0) register is not used as frame pointer in the
assembly entry code.

	resume_kernel:
		REG_L s0, TASK_TI_PREEMPT_COUNT(tp)
		bnez s0, restore_all
		REG_L s0, TASK_TI_FLAGS(tp)
                andi s0, s0, _TIF_NEED_RESCHED
                beqz s0, restore_all
                call preempt_schedule_irq
                j restore_all

To fix above issue, here we add one extra level wrapper for function
trace_hardirqs_{on,off}() so they can be safely called by low level entry
code.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48922?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-48922?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-48922 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48922 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-48922 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-48922 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 22 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48922 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48922/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48922/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48922
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48922
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-48922

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