# CVE-2022-50472: IB/mad: Don't call to function that might sleep while in atomic context

> A bug in the Linux kernel InfiniBand driver causes a kernel warning and potential instability by calling a sleeping function in atomic context.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 4 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50472, GHSA-72jq-rf44-32c6, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-50472, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50472

## What is CVE-2022-50472?

CVE-2022-50472 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

IB/mad: Don't call to function that might sleep while in atomic context

Tracepoints are not allowed to sleep, as such the following splat is
generated due to call to ib_query_pkey() in atomic context.

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1888000 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2492 rb_commit+0xc1/0x220
CPU: 0 PID: 1888000 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE    --------- -  - 4.18.0-305.3.1.el8.x86_64 #1
 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.13.0-2.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938 04/01/2014
 Workqueue: ib-comp-unb-wq ib_cq_poll_work [ib_core]
 RIP: 0010:rb_commit+0xc1/0x220
 RSP: 0000:ffffa8ac80f9bca0 EFLAGS: 00010202
 RAX: ffff8951c7c01300 RBX: ffff8951c7c14a00 RCX: 0000000000000246
 RDX: ffff8951c707c000 RSI: ffff8951c707c57c RDI: ffff8951c7c14a00
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: ffff8951c7c01300 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000246
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff964c70c0 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8951fbc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00007f20e8f39010 CR3: 000000002ca10005 CR4: 0000000000170ef0
 Call Trace:
  ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x1d/0xa0
  trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x3b/0x1b0
  trace_event_buffer_commit+0x67/0x1d0
  trace_event_raw_event_ib_mad_recv_done_handler+0x11c/0x160 [ib_core]
  ib_mad_recv_done+0x48b/0xc10 [ib_core]
  ? trace_event_raw_event_cq_poll+0x6f/0xb0 [ib_core]
  __ib_process_cq+0x91/0x1c0 [ib_core]
  ib_cq_poll_work+0x26/0x80 [ib_core]
  process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
  ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
  worker_thread+0x30/0x390
  ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
  kthread+0x116/0x130
  ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
 ---[ end trace 78ba8509d3830a16 ]---

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50472?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-50472?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50472 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50472 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50472 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50472 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 4 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50472 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-2022-50472/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50472/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50472
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50472
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50472

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50472/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.