# CVE-2022-50298: slimbus: qcom-ngd: cleanup in probe error path

> A missing cleanup in the probe error path of the Qualcomm SLIMbus driver can cause kernel warnings and potential instability during device initialization.

- **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:** 15 Sep 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50298, GHSA-6ww5-qxm2-m933, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50298

## What is CVE-2022-50298?

CVE-2022-50298 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 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:

slimbus: qcom-ngd: cleanup in probe error path

Add proper error path in probe() to cleanup resources previously
acquired/allocated to fix warnings visible during probe deferral:

  notifier callback qcom_slim_ngd_ssr_notify already registered
  WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 70 at kernel/notifier.c:28 notifier_chain_register+0x5c/0x90
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 6 PID: 70 Comm: kworker/u16:1 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc3-next-20220830 #380
  Call trace:
   notifier_chain_register+0x5c/0x90
   srcu_notifier_chain_register+0x44/0x90
   qcom_register_ssr_notifier+0x38/0x4c
   qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl_probe+0xd8/0x400
   platform_probe+0x6c/0xe0
   really_probe+0xbc/0x2d4
   __driver_probe_device+0x78/0xe0
   driver_probe_device+0x3c/0x12c
   __device_attach_driver+0xb8/0x120
   bus_for_each_drv+0x78/0xd0
   __device_attach+0xa8/0x1c0
   device_initial_probe+0x18/0x24
   bus_probe_device+0xa0/0xac
   deferred_probe_work_func+0x88/0xc0
   process_one_work+0x1d4/0x320
   worker_thread+0x2cc/0x44c
   kthread+0x110/0x114
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50298?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-50298?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50298 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50298 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50298 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50298 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Sep 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-2022-50298 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-2022-50298/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50298/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50298
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50298
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50298

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50298/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.