CVE-2022-50135 RDMA/rxe: Fix BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in rxe_qp_do_cleanup

What is CVE-2022-50135?

CVE-2022-50135 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:

RDMA/rxe: Fix BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in rxe_qp_do_cleanup

The function rxe_create_qp calls rxe_qp_from_init. If some error occurs, the error handler of function rxe_qp_from_init will set both scq and rcq to NULL.

Then rxe_create_qp calls rxe_put to handle qp. In the end, rxe_qp_do_cleanup is called by rxe_put. rxe_qp_do_cleanup directly accesses scq and rcq before checking them. This will cause null-ptr-deref error.

The call graph is as below:

rxe_create_qp { ... rxe_qp_from_init { ... err1: ... qp->rcq = NULL; <---rcq is set to NULL qp->scq = NULL; <---scq is set to NULL ... }

qp_init: rxe_put{ ... rxe_qp_do_cleanup { ... atomic_dec(&qp->scq->num_wq); <--- scq is accessed ... atomic_dec(&qp->rcq->num_wq); <--- rcq is accessed } }

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50135?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-50135?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-50135 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50135 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50135, GHSA-jh3v-8g5c-fp73, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50135.