CVE-2022-50211 md-raid10: fix KASAN warning
A slab-out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel's RAID10 module can cause a kernel crash, leading to denial of service.
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- Fix
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What is CVE-2022-50211?
CVE-2022-50211 is a high-severity memory corruption 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:
md-raid10: fix KASAN warning
There's a KASAN warning in raid10_remove_disk when running the lvm test lvconvert-raid-reshape.sh. We fix this warning by verifying that the value "number" is valid.
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in raid10_remove_disk+0x61/0x2a0 [raid10] Read of size 8 at addr ffff889108f3d300 by task mdX_raid10/124682
CPU: 3 PID: 124682 Comm: mdX_raid10 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc6 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44 print_report.cold+0x45/0x57a ? __lock_text_start+0x18/0x18 ? raid10_remove_disk+0x61/0x2a0 [raid10] kasan_report+0xa8/0xe0 ? raid10_remove_disk+0x61/0x2a0 [raid10] raid10_remove_disk+0x61/0x2a0 [raid10] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-76, logical block 15344, async page read ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath.constprop.0+0x1e0/0x1e0 remove_and_add_spares+0x367/0x8a0 [md_mod] ? super_written+0x1c0/0x1c0 [md_mod] ? mutex_trylock+0xac/0x120 ? _raw_spin_lock+0x72/0xc0 ? _raw_spin_lock_bh+0xc0/0xc0 md_check_recovery+0x848/0x960 [md_mod] raid10d+0xcf/0x3360 [raid10] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x185/0x1a0 ? rb_erase+0x4d4/0x620 ? var_wake_function+0xe0/0xe0 ? psi_group_change+0x411/0x500 ? preempt_count_sub+0xf/0xc0 ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x78/0xc0 ? __lock_text_start+0x18/0x18 ? raid10_sync_request+0x36c0/0x36c0 [raid10] ? preempt_count_sub+0xf/0xc0 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x40 ? del_timer_sync+0xa9/0x100 ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0xc0/0xc0 ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x78/0xc0 ? __lock_text_start+0x18/0x18 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x11/0x24 ? __list_del_entry_valid+0x68/0xa0 ? finish_wait+0xa3/0x100 md_thread+0x161/0x260 [md_mod] ? unregister_md_personality+0xa0/0xa0 [md_mod] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x78/0xc0 ? prepare_to_wait_event+0x2c0/0x2c0 ? unregister_md_personality+0xa0/0xa0 [md_mod] kthread+0x148/0x180 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK>
Allocated by task 124495: kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 __kasan_kmalloc+0x80/0xa0 setup_conf+0x140/0x5c0 [raid10] raid10_run+0x4cd/0x740 [raid10] md_run+0x6f9/0x1300 [md_mod] raid_ctr+0x2531/0x4ac0 [dm_raid] dm_table_add_target+0x2b0/0x620 [dm_mod] table_load+0x1c8/0x400 [dm_mod] ctl_ioctl+0x29e/0x560 [dm_mod] dm_compat_ctl_ioctl+0x7/0x20 [dm_mod] __do_compat_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x160 do_syscall_64+0x90/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
Last potentially related work creation: kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x9e/0xc0 kvfree_call_rcu+0x84/0x480 timerfd_release+0x82/0x140 L __fput+0xfa/0x400 task_work_run+0x80/0xc0 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x155/0x160 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x40 do_syscall_64+0x42/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
Second to last potentially related work creation: kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x9e/0xc0 kvfree_call_rcu+0x84/0x480 timerfd_release+0x82/0x140 __fput+0xfa/0x400 task_work_run+0x80/0xc0 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x155/0x160 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x40 do_syscall_64+0x42/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff889108f3d200 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of 256-byte region [ffff889108f3d200, ffff889108f3d300)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page:000000007ef2a34c refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1108f3c head:000000007ef2a34c order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=2) raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff889100042b40 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address: ffff889108f3d200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff889108f3d280: 00 00 ---truncated---
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50211?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2022-50211?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2022-50211 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50211 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50211, GHSA-9p4w-x9r2-x682, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50211.