# CVE-2022-49625: sfc: fix kernel panic when creating VF

> A kernel panic occurs in the sfc driver when creating Virtual Functions due to invalid memory unmapping in interrupt context, causing a 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-2022-49625, GHSA-2g78-g7c6-x75p, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49625

## What is CVE-2022-49625?

CVE-2022-49625 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:

sfc: fix kernel panic when creating VF

When creating VFs a kernel panic can happen when calling to
efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf.

When releasing a DMA coherent buffer, sometimes, I don't know in what
specific circumstances, it has to unmap memory with vunmap. It is
disallowed to do that in IRQ context or with BH disabled. Otherwise, we
hit this line in vunmap, causing the crash:
  BUG_ON(in_interrupt());

This patch reenables BH to release the buffer.

Log messages when the bug is hit:
 kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:2727!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 6 PID: 1462 Comm: NetworkManager Kdump: loaded Tainted: G          I      --------- ---  5.14.0-119.el9.x86_64 #1
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/06WXJT, BIOS 2.8.2 08/27/2020
 RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x2e/0x30
 ...skip...
 Call Trace:
  __iommu_dma_free+0x96/0x100
  efx_nic_free_buffer+0x2b/0x40 [sfc]
  efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf+0x14a/0x1c0 [sfc]
  efx_ef10_update_stats_vf+0x18/0x40 [sfc]
  efx_start_all+0x15e/0x1d0 [sfc]
  efx_net_open+0x5a/0xe0 [sfc]
  __dev_open+0xe7/0x1a0
  __dev_change_flags+0x1d7/0x240
  dev_change_flags+0x21/0x60
  ...skip...

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-49625?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-49625?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-49625 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-49625 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-49625 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-49625 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-2022-49625 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-2022-49625/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49625/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49625
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49625
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-49625

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-49625/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.