Vulnerability · Published Feb 26, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2022-49443list: fix a data-race around ep->rdllist

Medium 4.7

In plain English

A medium-severity race condition in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 8% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.7Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 92.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: list: fix a data-race around ep->rdllist ep_poll() first calls ep_events_available() with no lock held and checks if ep->rdllist is empty by list_empty_careful(), which reads rdllist->prev. Thus all accesses to it need some protection to avoid store/load-tearing. Note INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU() already has the annotation for both prev and next. Commit bf3b9f6372c4 ("epoll: Add busy poll support to epoll with socket fds.") added the first lockless ep_events_available(), and commit c5a282e9635e ("fs/epoll: reduce the scope of wq lock in epoll_wait()") made some ep_events_available() calls lockless and added single call under a lock, finally commit e59d3c64cba6 ("epoll: eliminate unnecessary lock for zero timeout") made the last ep_events_available() lockless. BUG: KCSAN: data-race in do_epoll_wait / do_epoll_wait write to 0xffff88810480c7d8 of 8 bytes by task 1802 on cpu 0: INIT_LIST_HEAD include/linux/list.h:38 [inline] list_splice_init include/linux/list.h:492 [inline] ep_start_scan fs/eventpoll.c:622 [inline] ep_send_events fs/eventpoll.c:1656 [inline] ep_poll fs/eventpoll.c:1806 [inline] do_epoll_wait+0x4eb/0xf40 fs/eventpoll.c:2234 do_epoll_pwait fs/eventpoll.c:2268 [inline] __do_sys_epoll_pwait fs/eventpoll.c:2281 [inline] __se_sys_epoll_pwait+0x12b/0x240 fs/eventpoll.c:2275 __x64_sys_epoll_pwait+0x74/0x80 fs/eventpoll.c:2275 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x44/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae read to 0xffff88810480c7d8 of 8 bytes by task 1799 on cpu 1: list_empty_careful include/linux/list.h:329 [inline] ep_events_available fs/eventpoll.c:381 [inline] ep_poll fs/eventpoll.c:1797 [inline] do_epoll_wait+0x279/0xf40 fs/eventpoll.c:2234 do_epoll_pwait fs/eventpoll.c:2268 [inline] __do_sys_epoll_pwait fs/eventpoll.c:2281 [inline] __se_sys_epoll_pwait+0x12b/0x240 fs/eventpoll.c:2275 __x64_sys_epoll_pwait+0x74/0x80 fs/eventpoll.c:2275 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x44/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae value changed: 0xffff88810480c7d0 -> 0xffff888103c15098 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 1 PID: 1799 Comm: syz-fuzzer Tainted: G W 5.17.0-rc7-syzkaller-dirty #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9kernel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-64k-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-abi-stablelists5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-cross-headers5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-debug-uki-virt5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-doc5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-headers5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-64k-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-rt-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools-libs5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-tools-libs-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-uki-virt5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-uki-virt-addons5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-devel5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9libperf5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9perf5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9python3-perf5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9rtla5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
AlmaLinux:9rv5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7ALSA-2025:20518
Debian:12linux5.18.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49443
Debian:13linux5.18.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49443
Debian:14linux5.18.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-49443
Rocky Linux:9kernel0:5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7RLSA-2025:20518
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-47.51UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1019.23UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1019.24UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1017.23UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1015.18UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1002.4UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1013.15UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1015.20UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1017.21UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-47.53UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1007.7UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1017.22UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1014.16UBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-49443

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux bf3b9f6372c45b0fbf24d86b8794910d20170017 – before 5d5d993f16be15d124be7b8ec71b28ef7b7dc3afbf3b9f6372c45b0fbf24d86b8794910d20170017 – before cb3e48f7a35033deb9455abe3932e63cb500b9ebbf3b9f6372c45b0fbf24d86b8794910d20170017 – before e039c0b5985999b150594126225e1ee51df7b4c9bf3b9f6372c45b0fbf24d86b8794910d20170017 – before d679ae94fdd5d3ab00c35078f5af5f37e068b03d
Linux Linux 4.12

Weakness: CWE-362 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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