Security Advisory

CVE-2022-50148

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-06-18 11:03:08
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:13:45
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove When lockdep is enabled, lockdep_assert_held_write would cause potential NULL pointer dereference. Fix the following smatch warnings: fs/kernfs/dir.c:1353 __kernfs_remove() warn: variable dereferenced before check kn (see line 1346)