# CVE-2022-49018: mptcp: fix sleep in atomic at close time

> A bug in the Linux kernel MPTCP implementation causes a sleep in atomic context during socket closure, potentially leading to system instability or crashes.

- **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:** 21 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49018, GHSA-67rw-g94p-phv8, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49018

## What is CVE-2022-49018?

CVE-2022-49018 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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:

mptcp: fix sleep in atomic at close time

Matt reported a splat at msk close time:

    BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/mptcp/protocol.c:2877
    in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 155, name: packetdrill
    preempt_count: 201, expected: 0
    RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
    4 locks held by packetdrill/155:
    #0: ffff888001536990 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#6){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __sock_release (net/socket.c:650)
    #1: ffff88800b498130 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2973)
    #2: ffff88800b49a130 (sk_lock-AF_INET/1){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: __mptcp_close_ssk (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2363)
    #3: ffff88800b49a0b0 (slock-AF_INET){+...}-{2:2}, at: __lock_sock_fast (include/net/sock.h:1820)
    Preemption disabled at:
    0x0
    CPU: 1 PID: 155 Comm: packetdrill Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5 #365
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
    Call Trace:
    <TASK>
    dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107 (discriminator 4))
    __might_resched.cold (kernel/sched/core.c:9891)
    __mptcp_destroy_sock (include/linux/kernel.h:110)
    __mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2959)
    mptcp_subflow_queue_clean (include/net/sock.h:1777)
    __mptcp_close_ssk (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2363)
    mptcp_destroy_common (net/mptcp/protocol.c:3170)
    mptcp_destroy (include/net/sock.h:1495)
    __mptcp_destroy_sock (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2886)
    __mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2959)
    mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2974)
    inet_release (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:432)
    __sock_release (net/socket.c:651)
    sock_close (net/socket.c:1367)
    __fput (fs/file_table.c:320)
    task_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:181 (discriminator 1))
    exit_to_user_mode_prepare (include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49)
    syscall_exit_to_user_mode (kernel/entry/common.c:130)
    do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:87)
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120)

We can't call mptcp_close under the 'fast' socket lock variant, replace
it with a sock_lock_nested() as the relevant code is already under the
listening msk socket lock protection.

Weakness: CWE-667 (Improper Locking)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49018?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49018?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49018 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49018 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49018 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49018 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 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-2022-49018 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-2022-49018/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49018/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49018
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49018
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49018

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