CVE-2022-49175 PM: core: keep irq flags in device_pm_check_callbacks()

Medium 5.5 Published 26 Feb 2025 Updated 11 May 2026

A kernel bug in device power management causes a warning and potential instability when IRQ flags are not preserved during spinlock operations.

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-2022-49175?

CVE-2022-49175 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:

PM: core: keep irq flags in device_pm_check_callbacks()

The function device_pm_check_callbacks() can be called under the spin lock (in the reported case it happens from genpd_add_device() -> dev_pm_domain_set(), when the genpd uses spinlocks rather than mutexes.

However this function uncoditionally uses spin_lock_irq() / spin_unlock_irq(), thus not preserving the CPU flags. Use the irqsave/irqrestore instead.

The backtrace for the reference: [ 2.752010] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 2.756769] raw_local_irq_restore() called with IRQs enabled [ 2.762596] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 1 at kernel/locking/irqflag-debug.c:10 warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x34/0x50 [ 2.772338] Modules linked in: [ 2.775487] CPU: 4 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G S 5.17.0-rc6-00384-ge330d0d82eff-dirty #684 [ 2.781384] Freeing initrd memory: 46024K [ 2.785839] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 2.785841] pc : warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x34/0x50 [ 2.785844] lr : warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x34/0x50 [ 2.785846] sp : ffff80000805b7d0 [ 2.785847] x29: ffff80000805b7d0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000002 [ 2.785850] x26: ffffd40e80930b18 x25: ffff7ee2329192b8 x24: ffff7edfc9f60800 [ 2.785853] x23: ffffd40e80930b18 x22: ffffd40e80930d30 x21: ffff7edfc0dffa00 [ 2.785856] x20: ffff7edfc09e3768 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffffffffffffffff [ 2.845775] x17: 6572206f74206465 x16: 6c696166203a3030 x15: ffff80008805b4f7 [ 2.853108] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: ffffd40e809550b0 x12: 00000000000003d8 [ 2.860441] x11: 0000000000000148 x10: ffffd40e809550b0 x9 : ffffd40e809550b0 [ 2.867774] x8 : 00000000ffffefff x7 : ffffd40e809ad0b0 x6 : ffffd40e809ad0b0 [ 2.875107] x5 : 000000000000bff4 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 2.882440] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff7edfc03a8000 [ 2.889774] Call trace: [ 2.892290] warn_bogus_irq_restore+0x34/0x50 [ 2.896770] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x94/0xa0 [ 2.901690] genpd_unlock_spin+0x20/0x30 [ 2.905724] genpd_add_device+0x100/0x2d0 [ 2.909850] __genpd_dev_pm_attach+0xa8/0x23c [ 2.914329] genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id+0xc4/0x190 [ 2.919167] genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_name+0x3c/0xd0 [ 2.924086] dev_pm_domain_attach_by_name+0x24/0x30 [ 2.929102] psci_dt_attach_cpu+0x24/0x90 [ 2.933230] psci_cpuidle_probe+0x2d4/0x46c [ 2.937534] platform_probe+0x68/0xe0 [ 2.941304] really_probe.part.0+0x9c/0x2fc [ 2.945605] __driver_probe_device+0x98/0x144 [ 2.950085] driver_probe_device+0x44/0x15c [ 2.954385] __device_attach_driver+0xb8/0x120 [ 2.958950] bus_for_each_drv+0x78/0xd0 [ 2.962896] __device_attach+0xd8/0x180 [ 2.966843] device_initial_probe+0x14/0x20 [ 2.971144] bus_probe_device+0x9c/0xa4 [ 2.975092] device_add+0x380/0x88c [ 2.978679] platform_device_add+0x114/0x234 [ 2.983067] platform_device_register_full+0x100/0x190 [ 2.988344] psci_idle_init+0x6c/0xb0 [ 2.992113] do_one_initcall+0x74/0x3a0 [ 2.996060] kernel_init_freeable+0x2fc/0x384 [ 3.000543] kernel_init+0x28/0x130 [ 3.004132] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 [ 3.007817] irq event stamp: 319826 [ 3.011404] hardirqs last enabled at (319825): [<ffffd40e7eda0268>] __up_console_sem+0x78/0x84 [ 3.020332] hardirqs last disabled at (319826): [<ffffd40e7fd6d9d8>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x8c [ 3.028458] softirqs last enabled at (318312): [<ffffd40e7ec90410>] _stext+0x410/0x588 [ 3.036678] softirqs last disabled at (318299): [<ffffd40e7ed1bf68>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x158/0x174 [ 3.045607] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49175?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-49175?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-49175 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49175 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49175, GHSA-3hj3-wm67-265x, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49175.