Security Advisory

CVE-2022-48648

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-04-28 13:00:28
Last updated 2026-05-11 18:44:26
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sfc: fix null pointer dereference in efx_hard_start_xmit Trying to get the channel from the tx_queue variable here is wrong because we can only be here if tx_queue is NULL, so we shouldnt dereference it. As the above comment in the code says, this is very unlikely to happen, but its wrong anyway so lets fix it. I hit this issue because of a different bug that caused tx_queue to be NULL. If that happens, this is the error message that we get here: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020 [...] RIP: 0010:efx_hard_start_xmit+0x153/0x170 [sfc]