fkie_cve-2022-50148
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-06-18 11:15
Modified
2025-11-17 19:57
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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)
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a9f35b8729c5bf13ea671c908c17ed74c48fc50Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72b5d5aef246a0387cefa23121dd90901c7a691aPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b871986d9d3071f5082664ac274d93f08db257cdPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *


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