CVE-2022-50148 Information

Jun 19, 2025 cve

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)

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a9f35b8729c5bf13ea671c908c17ed74c48fc50 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72b5d5aef246a0387cefa23121dd90901c7a691a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b871986d9d3071f5082664ac274d93f08db257cd

CNNVD-202506-2436 (Published: 2025-06-18)

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