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CVE-2022-49018

mptcp: fix sleep in atomic at close time

Medium5.5EPSS 0.15%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
Linux

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mptcp: fix sleep in atomic at close time Matt reported a splat at msk close time: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/mptcp/protocol.c:2877 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 155, name: packetdrill preempt_count: 201, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 4 locks held by packetdrill/155: #0: ffff888001536990 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#6){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: __sock_release (net/socket.c:650) #1: ffff88800b498130 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2973) #2: ffff88800b49a130 (sk_lock-AF_INET/1){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: __mptcp_close_ssk (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2363) #3: ffff88800b49a0b0 (slock-AF_INET){+...}-{2:2}, at: __lock_sock_fast (include/net/sock.h:1820) Preemption disabled at: 0x0 CPU: 1 PID: 155 Comm: packetdrill Not tainted 6.1.0-rc5 #365 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:107 (discriminator 4)) __might_resched.cold (kernel/sched/core.c:9891) __mptcp_destroy_sock (include/linux/kernel.h:110) __mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2959) mptcp_subflow_queue_clean (include/net/sock.h:1777) __mptcp_close_ssk (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2363) mptcp_destroy_common (net/mptcp/protocol.c:3170) mptcp_destroy (include/net/sock.h:1495) __mptcp_destroy_sock (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2886) __mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2959) mptcp_close (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2974) inet_release (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:432) __sock_release (net/socket.c:651) sock_close (net/socket.c:1367) __fput (fs/file_table.c:320) task_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:181 (discriminator 1)) exit_to_user_mode_prepare (include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49) syscall_exit_to_user_mode (kernel/entry/common.c:130) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:87) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:120) We can't call mptcp_close under the 'fast' socket lock variant, replace it with a sock_lock_nested() as the relevant code is already under the listening msk socket lock protection.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By Linux

  2. · 2 months later

    Published

  3. · 19 months later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2022-49018, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1Medium5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Linux · Linux

    • affected 30e51b923e436b631e8d5b77fa5e318c6b066dc7 – < d8e6c5500dbf0f3e87aace90d4beba6ae928e866
    • affected 30e51b923e436b631e8d5b77fa5e318c6b066dc7 – < b4f166651d03b5484fa179817ba8ad4899a5a6ac
    • affected b41808bfa049d1bc7ce8ce1ad4d591f7d203ebb9
    • affected 5.19.14 – < 5.20

  • Linux · Linux

    • affected 6.0
    • unaffected < 6.0
    • unaffected 6.0.12 – ≤ 6.0.*
    • unaffected 6.1 – ≤ *

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