CVE-2022-50712
kernel: devlink: hold region lock when flushing snapshots
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · December 24, 2025
Updated · July 22, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
devlink: hold region lock when flushing snapshots
Netdevsim triggers a splat on reload, when it destroys regions with snapshots pending:
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 787 at net/core/devlink.c:6291 devlink_region_snapshot_del+0x12e/0x140 CPU: 1 PID: 787 Comm: devlink Not tainted 6.1.0-07460-g7ae9888d6e1c #580 RIP: 0010:devlink_region_snapshot_del+0x12e/0x140 Call Trace: <TASK> devl_region_destroy+0x70/0x140 nsim_dev_reload_down+0x2f/0x60 [netdevsim] devlink_reload+0x1f7/0x360 devlink_nl_cmd_reload+0x6ce/0x860 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.0+0x145/0x1c0
This is the locking assert in devlink_region_snapshot_del(), we're supposed to be holding the region->snapshot_lock here.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 3.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-414 · Missing Lock Check