# CVE-2022-50647: RISC-V: Make port I/O string accessors actually work

> A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash by accessing specific parallel port I/O operations on RISC-V systems.

- **Severity:** Not scored
- **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:** 9 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50647, GHSA-gvvr-vj5m-jq76, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50647

## What is CVE-2022-50647?

CVE-2022-50647 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 9 Dec 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:

RISC-V: Make port I/O string accessors actually work

Fix port I/O string accessors such as `insb', `outsb', etc. which use
the physical PCI port I/O address rather than the corresponding memory
mapping to get at the requested location, which in turn breaks at least
accesses made by our parport driver to a PCIe parallel port such as:

PCI parallel port detected: 1415:c118, I/O at 0x1000(0x1008), IRQ 20
parport0: PC-style at 0x1000 (0x1008), irq 20, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]

causing a memory access fault:

Unable to handle kernel access to user memory without uaccess routines at virtual address 0000000000001008
Oops [#1]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 350 Comm: cat Not tainted 6.0.0-rc2-00283-g10d4879f9ef0-dirty #23
Hardware name: SiFive HiFive Unmatched A00 (DT)
epc : parport_pc_fifo_write_block_pio+0x266/0x416
 ra : parport_pc_fifo_write_block_pio+0xb4/0x416
epc : ffffffff80542c3e ra : ffffffff80542a8c sp : ffffffd88899fc60
 gp : ffffffff80fa2700 tp : ffffffd882b1e900 t0 : ffffffd883d0b000
 t1 : ffffffffff000002 t2 : 4646393043330a38 s0 : ffffffd88899fcf0
 s1 : 0000000000001000 a0 : 0000000000000010 a1 : 0000000000000000
 a2 : ffffffd883d0a010 a3 : 0000000000000023 a4 : 00000000ffff8fbb
 a5 : ffffffd883d0a001 a6 : 0000000100000000 a7 : ffffffc800000000
 s2 : ffffffffff000002 s3 : ffffffff80d28880 s4 : ffffffff80fa1f50
 s5 : 0000000000001008 s6 : 0000000000000008 s7 : ffffffd883d0a000
 s8 : 0004000000000000 s9 : ffffffff80dc1d80 s10: ffffffd8807e4000
 s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : 00000000000000ff t4 : 393044410a303930
 t5 : 0000000000001000 t6 : 0000000000040000
status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: 0000000000001008 cause: 000000000000000f
[<ffffffff80543212>] parport_pc_compat_write_block_pio+0xfe/0x200
[<ffffffff8053bbc0>] parport_write+0x46/0xf8
[<ffffffff8050530e>] lp_write+0x158/0x2d2
[<ffffffff80185716>] vfs_write+0x8e/0x2c2
[<ffffffff80185a74>] ksys_write+0x52/0xc2
[<ffffffff80185af2>] sys_write+0xe/0x16
[<ffffffff80003770>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x2
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

For simplicity address the problem by adding PCI_IOBASE to the physical
address requested in the respective wrapper macros only, observing that
the raw accessors such as `__insb', `__outsb', etc. are not supposed to
be used other than by said macros.  Remove the cast to `long' that is no
longer needed on `addr' now that it is used as an offset from PCI_IOBASE
and add parentheses around `addr' needed for predictable evaluation in
macro expansion.  No need to make said adjustments in separate changes
given that current code is gravely broken and does not ever work.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50647?


## How do I fix CVE-2022-50647?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50647 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50647 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-50647 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50647 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 9 Dec 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-2022-50647 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux. 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-2022-50647/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50647/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50647
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50647
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50647

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