CVE-2022-50715 md/raid1: stop mdx_raid1 thread when raid1 array run failed
A local attacker with high privileges can cause a kernel crash during system shutdown by triggering a null pointer dereference in the RAID1 subsystem.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-50715?
CVE-2022-50715 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 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:
md/raid1: stop mdx_raid1 thread when raid1 array run failed
fail run raid1 array when we assemble array with the inactive disk only, but the mdx_raid1 thread were not stop, Even if the associated resources have been released. it will caused a NULL dereference when we do poweroff.
This causes the following Oops: [ 287.587787] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000070 [ 287.594762] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 287.599912] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 287.605061] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 287.607612] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 287.611287] CPU: 3 PID: 5265 Comm: md0_raid1 Tainted: G U 5.10.146 #0 [ 287.619029] Hardware name: xxxxxxx/To be filled by O.E.M, BIOS 5.19 06/16/2022 [ 287.626775] RIP: 0010:md_check_recovery+0x57/0x500 [md_mod] [ 287.632357] Code: fe 01 00 00 48 83 bb 10 03 00 00 00 74 08 48 89 ...... [ 287.651118] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000433d78 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 287.656347] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888105986800 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 287.663491] RDX: ffffc90000433bb0 RSI: 00000000ffffefff RDI: ffff888105986800 [ 287.670634] RBP: ffffc90000433da0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: c0000000ffffefff [ 287.677771] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffc90000433ba8 R12: ffff888105986800 [ 287.684907] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: fffffffffffffe00 R15: ffff888100b6b500 [ 287.692052] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888277f80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 287.700149] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 287.705897] CR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 000000000320a000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 [ 287.713033] Call Trace: [ 287.715498] raid1d+0x6c/0xbbb [raid1] [ 287.719256] ? __schedule+0x1ff/0x760 [ 287.722930] ? schedule+0x3b/0xb0 [ 287.726260] ? schedule_timeout+0x1ed/0x290 [ 287.730456] ? __switch_to+0x11f/0x400 [ 287.734219] md_thread+0xe9/0x140 [md_mod] [ 287.738328] ? md_thread+0xe9/0x140 [md_mod] [ 287.742601] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 [ 287.746097] ? md_register_thread+0xe0/0xe0 [md_mod] [ 287.751064] kthread+0x11a/0x140 [ 287.754300] ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90 [ 287.757974] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
In fact, when raid1 array run fail, we need to do md_unregister_thread() before raid1_free().
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50715?
How do I fix CVE-2022-50715?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2022-50715 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50715 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50715, GHSA-rrpf-vhv2-qw86, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50715.