# CVE-2022-49606: RDMA/irdma: Fix sleep from invalid context BUG

> A kernel bug in the irdma RDMA driver causes a system crash when processing network events, 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:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49606, GHSA-4j23-w98q-23fx, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49606

## What is CVE-2022-49606?

CVE-2022-49606 is a medium-severity denial of service 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:

RDMA/irdma: Fix sleep from invalid context BUG

Taking the qos_mutex to process RoCEv2 QP's on netdev events causes a
kernel splat.

Fix this by removing the handling for RoCEv2 in
irdma_cm_teardown_connections that uses the mutex. This handling is only
needed for iWARP to avoid having connections established while the link is
down or having connections remain functional after the IP address is
removed.

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.
  Call Trace:
  kernel: dump_stack+0x66/0x90
  kernel: ___might_sleep.cold.92+0x8d/0x9a
  kernel: mutex_lock+0x1c/0x40
  kernel: irdma_cm_teardown_connections+0x28e/0x4d0 [irdma]
  kernel: ? check_preempt_curr+0x7a/0x90
  kernel: ? select_idle_sibling+0x22/0x3c0
  kernel: ? select_task_rq_fair+0x94c/0xc90
  kernel: ? irdma_exec_cqp_cmd+0xc27/0x17c0 [irdma]
  kernel: ? __wake_up_common+0x7a/0x190
  kernel: irdma_if_notify+0x3cc/0x450 [irdma]
  kernel: ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc/0xb0
  kernel: irdma_inet6addr_event+0xc6/0x150 [irdma]

Weakness: CWE-667 (Improper Locking)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49606?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49606?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49606 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49606 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49606 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49606 is a medium-severity denial of service 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-2022-49606 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-2022-49606/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49606/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49606
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49606
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49606

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