# CVE-2022-49192: drivers: ethernet: cpsw: fix panic when interrupt coaleceing is set via ethtool

> A logic error in the Linux kernel CPSW driver causes a null pointer dereference and system panic when interrupt coalescing is configured via ethtool.

- **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:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49192, GHSA-7w8f-cmhf-84hf, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49192

## What is CVE-2022-49192?

CVE-2022-49192 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:

drivers: ethernet: cpsw: fix panic when interrupt coaleceing is set via ethtool

cpsw_ethtool_begin directly returns the result of pm_runtime_get_sync
when successful.
pm_runtime_get_sync returns -error code on failure and 0 on successful
resume but also 1 when the device is already active. So the common case
for cpsw_ethtool_begin is to return 1. That leads to inconsistent calls
to pm_runtime_put in the call-chain so that pm_runtime_put is called
one too many times and as result leaving the cpsw dev behind suspended.

The suspended cpsw dev leads to an access violation later on by
different parts of the cpsw driver.

Fix this by calling the return-friendly pm_runtime_resume_and_get
function.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49192?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49192?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49192 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49192 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49192 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49192 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-2022-49192 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-2022-49192/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49192/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49192
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49192
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49192

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49192/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.