CVE-2022-49259

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49259
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49259.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49259
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-26T01:56:12.046Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:43:46.204229Z
Summary
block: don't delete queue kobject before its children
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

block: don't delete queue kobject before its children

kobjects aren't supposed to be deleted before their child kobjects are deleted. Apparently this is usually benign; however, a WARN will be triggered if one of the child kobjects has a named attribute group:

sysfs group 'modes' not found for kobject 'crypto'
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at fs/sysfs/group.c:278 sysfs_remove_group+0x72/0x80
...
Call Trace:
  sysfs_remove_groups+0x29/0x40 fs/sysfs/group.c:312
  __kobject_del+0x20/0x80 lib/kobject.c:611
  kobject_cleanup+0xa4/0x140 lib/kobject.c:696
  kobject_release lib/kobject.c:736 [inline]
  kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
  kobject_put+0x53/0x70 lib/kobject.c:753
  blk_crypto_sysfs_unregister+0x10/0x20 block/blk-crypto-sysfs.c:159
  blk_unregister_queue+0xb0/0x110 block/blk-sysfs.c:962
  del_gendisk+0x117/0x250 block/genhd.c:610

Fix this by moving the kobjectdel() and the corresponding kobjectuevent() to the correct place.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/49xxx/CVE-2022-49259.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
2c2086afc2b8b974fac32cb028e73dc27bfae442
Fixed
b2001eb10f59363da930cdd6e086a2861986fa18
Fixed
84fe3ca6e7910beb47ec13509d484f84fa2a41ad
Fixed
0b5924a14d64487ebd51127b0358d06066ef5384
Fixed
efaa0e969261e97c1fdd8e0338e5dd3ba5b9219c
Fixed
cf0cb8686e55d9c022944bc6ba9e19e832889e83
Fixed
3d7e32c8da45957326f56937e0471c686d1a7711
Fixed
0f69288253e9fc7c495047720e523b9f1aba5712

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49259.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.16.0
Fixed
4.19.238
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.189
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.110
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.33
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
5.16.19
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.17.0
Fixed
5.17.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49259.json"