# CVE-2022-49118: scsi: hisi_sas: Free irq vectors in order for v3 HW

> A kernel bug in the hisi_sas driver causes a crash when probe fails, leading to denial of service.

- **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:** 26 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 12 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49118, GHSA-v6xc-xc9x-9pv7, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49118

## What is CVE-2022-49118?

CVE-2022-49118 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. 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:

scsi: hisi_sas: Free irq vectors in order for v3 HW

If the driver probe fails to request the channel IRQ or fatal IRQ, the
driver will free the IRQ vectors before freeing the IRQs in free_irq(),
and this will cause a kernel BUG like this:

------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at drivers/pci/msi.c:369!
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Call trace:
   free_msi_irqs+0x118/0x13c
   pci_disable_msi+0xfc/0x120
   pci_free_irq_vectors+0x24/0x3c
   hisi_sas_v3_probe+0x360/0x9d0 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
   local_pci_probe+0x44/0xb0
   work_for_cpu_fn+0x20/0x34
   process_one_work+0x1d0/0x340
   worker_thread+0x2e0/0x460
   kthread+0x180/0x190
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
---[ end trace b88990335b610c11 ]---

So we use devm_add_action() to control the order in which we free the
vectors.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49118?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49118?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49118 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49118 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49118 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49118 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Feb 2025. 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-2022-49118 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-2022-49118/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49118/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49118
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49118
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49118

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49118/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.