CVE-2022-50459
CVE-2022-50459CVE-2022-50459
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix null-ptr-deref while calling getpeername()
Fix a NULL pointer crash that occurs when we are freeing the socket at the
same time we access it via sysfs.
The problem is that:
1. iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_get_param() and iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param() take
the frwd_lock and do sock_hold() then drop the frwd_lock. sock_hold()
does a get on the "struct sock".
2. iscsi_sw_tcp_release_conn() does sockfd_put() which does the last put
on the "struct socket" and that does __sock_release() which sets the
sock->ops to NULL.
3. iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_get_param() and iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param() then
call kernel_getpeername() which accesses the NULL sock->ops.
Above we do a get on the "struct sock", but we needed a get on the "struct
socket". Originally, we just held the frwd_lock the entire time but in
commit bcf3a2953d36 ("scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Avoid holding spinlock while
calling get
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |