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CVE-2022-50148

kernel: kernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7

CVSS 3.1

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Published · June 18, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

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)

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-413 · Improper Resource Locking