# CVE-2022-50441: net/mlx5: Lag, fix failure to cancel delayed bond work

> A missing cancellation of delayed work in the Linux kernel mlx5 driver can cause a null pointer dereference and system crash.

- **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:** 1 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50441, GHSA-87gh-wrhg-pfjq, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50441

## What is CVE-2022-50441?

CVE-2022-50441 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Oct 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:

net/mlx5: Lag, fix failure to cancel delayed bond work

Commit 0d4e8ed139d8 ("net/mlx5: Lag, avoid lockdep warnings")
accidentally removed a call to cancel delayed bond work thus it may
cause queued delay to expire and fall on an already destroyed work
queue.

Fix by restoring the call cancel_delayed_work_sync() before
destroying the workqueue.

This prevents call trace such as this:

[  329.230417] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 [  329.231444] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 [  329.232233] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
 [  329.233007] PGD 0 P4D 0
 [  329.233476] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
 [  329.234012] CPU: 5 PID: 145 Comm: kworker/u20:4 Tainted: G OE      6.0.0-rc5_mlnx #1
 [  329.235282] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
 [  329.236868] Workqueue: mlx5_cmd_0000:08:00.1 cmd_work_handler [mlx5_core]
 [  329.237886] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock+0xc/0x20
 [  329.238585] Code: f0 0f b1 17 75 02 f3 c3 89 c6 e9 6f 3c 5f ff 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 <f0> 0f b1 17 75 02 f3 c3 89 c6 e9 45 3c 5f ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f
 [  329.241156] RSP: 0018:ffffc900001b0e98 EFLAGS: 00010046
 [  329.241940] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff82374ae0 RCX: 0000000000000000
 [  329.242954] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000014 RDI: 0000000000000000
 [  329.243974] RBP: ffff888106ccf000 R08: ffff8881004000c8 R09: ffff888100400000
 [  329.244990] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff826669f8 R12: 0000000000002000
 [  329.246009] R13: 0000000000000005 R14: ffff888100aa7ce0 R15: ffff88852ca80000
 [  329.247030] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88852ca80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 [  329.248260] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 [  329.249111] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000016d675001 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
 [  329.250133] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 [  329.251152] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 [  329.252176] PKRU: 55555554

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50441?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-50441?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50441 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50441 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50441 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50441 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Oct 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-2022-50441 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-2022-50441/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50441/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50441
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50441
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50441

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50441/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.