# CVE-2022-50041: ice: Fix call trace with null VSI during VF reset

> A null pointer dereference in the Intel ice network driver during VF reset can cause a kernel call trace and system instability.

- **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:** 18 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50041, GHSA-xfr9-gjjg-cfch, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50041

## What is CVE-2022-50041?

CVE-2022-50041 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 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:

ice: Fix call trace with null VSI during VF reset

During stress test with attaching and detaching VF from KVM and
simultaneously changing VFs spoofcheck and trust there was a
call trace in ice_reset_vf that VF's VSI is null.

[145237.352797] WARNING: CPU: 46 PID: 840629 at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_lib.c:508 ice_reset_vf+0x3d6/0x410 [ice]
[145237.352851] Modules linked in: ice(E) vfio_pci vfio_pci_core vfio_virqfd vfio_iommu_type1 vfio iavf dm_mod xt_CHECKSUM xt_MASQUERADE
xt_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 nft_compat nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables nfnetlink tun
 bridge stp llc sunrpc intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common sb_edac x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm iTCO_wdt iTC
O_vendor_support irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel rapl ipmi_si intel_cstate ipmi_devintf joydev intel_uncore m
ei_me ipmi_msghandler i2c_i801 pcspkr mei lpc_ich ioatdma i2c_smbus acpi_pad acpi_power_meter ip_tables xfs libcrc32c i2c_algo_bit drm_sh
mem_helper drm_kms_helper sd_mod t10_pi crc64_rocksoft syscopyarea crc64 sysfillrect sg sysimgblt fb_sys_fops drm i40e ixgbe ahci libahci
 libata crc32c_intel mdio dca wmi fuse [last unloaded: ice]
[145237.352917] CPU: 46 PID: 840629 Comm: kworker/46:2 Tainted: G S      W I E     5.19.0-rc6+ #24
[145237.352921] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600WTT/S2600WTT, BIOS SE5C610.86B.01.01.0008.021120151325 02/11/2015
[145237.352923] Workqueue: ice ice_service_task [ice]
[145237.352948] RIP: 0010:ice_reset_vf+0x3d6/0x410 [ice]
[145237.352984] Code: 30 ec f3 cc e9 28 fd ff ff 0f b7 4b 50 48 c7 c2 48 19 9c c0 4c 89 ee 48 c7 c7 30 fe 9e c0 e8 d1 21 9d cc 31 c0 e9 a
9 fe ff ff <0f> 0b b8 ea ff ff ff e9 c1 fc ff ff 0f 0b b8 fb ff ff ff e9 91 fe
[145237.352987] RSP: 0018:ffffb453e257fdb8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[145237.352990] RAX: ffff8bd0040181c0 RBX: ffff8be68db8f800 RCX: 0000000000000000
[145237.352991] RDX: 000000000000ffff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8be68db8f800
[145237.352993] RBP: ffff8bd0040181c0 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: ffff8bcfd520e000
[145237.352995] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00008417b5ab0bc0 R12: 0000000000000005
[145237.352996] R13: ffff8bcee061c0d0 R14: ffff8bd004019640 R15: 0000000000000000
[145237.352998] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8be5dfb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[145237.353000] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[145237.353002] CR2: 00007fd81f651d68 CR3: 0000001a0fe10001 CR4: 00000000001726e0
[145237.353003] Call Trace:
[145237.353008]  <TASK>
[145237.353011]  ice_process_vflr_event+0x8d/0xb0 [ice]
[145237.353049]  ice_service_task+0x79f/0xef0 [ice]
[145237.353074]  process_one_work+0x1c8/0x390
[145237.353081]  ? process_one_work+0x390/0x390
[145237.353084]  worker_thread+0x30/0x360
[145237.353087]  ? process_one_work+0x390/0x390
[145237.353090]  kthread+0xe8/0x110
[145237.353094]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[145237.353097]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[145237.353103]  </TASK>

Remove WARN_ON() from check if VSI is null in ice_reset_vf.
Add "VF is already removed\n" in dev_dbg().

This WARN_ON() is unnecessary and causes call trace, despite that
call trace, driver still works. There is no need for this warn
because this piece of code is responsible for disabling VF's Tx/Rx
queues when VF is disabled, but when VF is already removed there
is no need to do reset or disable queues.

Weakness: CWE-617 (Reachable Assertion)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50041?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-50041?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50041 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50041 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50041 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50041 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 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-2022-50041 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-2022-50041/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50041/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50041
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50041
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50041

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