CVE-2022-50225 riscv:uprobe fix SR_SPIE set/clear handling
A flaw in the Linux kernel's RISC-V uprobe handling causes a kernel warning and potential instability when page faults occur during instruction execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
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- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-50225?
CVE-2022-50225 is a medium-severity denial of service 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:
riscv:uprobe fix SR_SPIE set/clear handling
In riscv the process of uprobe going to clear spie before exec the origin insn,and set spie after that.But When access the page which origin insn has been placed a page fault may happen and irq was disabled in arch_uprobe_pre_xol function,It cause a WARN as follows. There is no need to clear/set spie in arch_uprobe_pre/post/abort_xol. We can just remove it.
[ 31.684157] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1488 [ 31.684677] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 76, name: work [ 31.684929] preempt_count: 0, expected: 0 [ 31.685969] CPU: 2 PID: 76 Comm: work Tainted: G [ 31.686542] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT) [ 31.686797] Call Trace: [ 31.687053] [<ffffffff80006442>] dump_backtrace+0x30/0x38 [ 31.687699] [<ffffffff80812118>] show_stack+0x40/0x4c [ 31.688141] [<ffffffff8081817a>] dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c [ 31.688396] [<ffffffff808181aa>] dump_stack+0x18/0x20 [ 31.688653] [<ffffffff8003e454>] __might_resched+0x114/0x122 [ 31.688948] [<ffffffff8003e4b2>] __might_sleep+0x50/0x7a [ 31.689435] [<ffffffff80822676>] down_read+0x30/0x130 [ 31.689728] [<ffffffff8000b650>] do_page_fault+0x166/x446 [ 31.689997] [<ffffffff80003c0c>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc
Weakness: CWE-667
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50225?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2022-50225?
Apply the vendor's patch.
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Is CVE-2022-50225 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50225 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50225, GHSA-vr7f-qwxp-xqrp, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50225.