CVE-2022-50885 RDMA/rxe: Fix NULL-ptr-deref in rxe_qp_do_cleanup() when socket create failed
A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel RDMA driver allows local attackers to cause a system crash via CIFS mount operations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-50885?
CVE-2022-50885 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 30 Dec 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:
RDMA/rxe: Fix NULL-ptr-deref in rxe_qp_do_cleanup() when socket create failed
There is a null-ptr-deref when mount.cifs over rdma:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in rxe_qp_do_cleanup+0x2f3/0x360 [rdma_rxe] Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000018 by task mount.cifs/3046
CPU: 2 PID: 3046 Comm: mount.cifs Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5+ #62 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc3 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44 kasan_report+0xad/0x130 rxe_qp_do_cleanup+0x2f3/0x360 [rdma_rxe] execute_in_process_context+0x25/0x90 __rxe_cleanup+0x101/0x1d0 [rdma_rxe] rxe_create_qp+0x16a/0x180 [rdma_rxe] create_qp.part.0+0x27d/0x340 ib_create_qp_kernel+0x73/0x160 rdma_create_qp+0x100/0x230 _smbd_get_connection+0x752/0x20f0 smbd_get_connection+0x21/0x40 cifs_get_tcp_session+0x8ef/0xda0 mount_get_conns+0x60/0x750 cifs_mount+0x103/0xd00 cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1dd/0xcb0 smb3_get_tree+0x1d5/0x300 vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0 path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0 __x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The root cause of the issue is the socket create failed in rxe_qp_init_req().
So move the reset rxe_qp_do_cleanup() after the NULL ptr check.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50885?
How do I fix CVE-2022-50885?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2022-50885 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50885 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50885, GHSA-j956-q5gg-h432, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50885.