# CVE-2022-48692: RDMA/srp: Set scmnd-\>result only when scmnd is not NULL

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-05-03 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.14

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/srp: Set scmnd->result only when scmnd is not NULL This change fixes the following kernel NULL pointer dereference which is reproduced by blktests srp/007 occasionally. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000170 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:1H Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1+ #37 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.15.0-29-g6a62e0cb0dfe-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Workqueue: 0x0 (kblockd) RIP: 0010:srp_recv_done+0x176/0x500 [ib_srp] Code: 00 4d 85 ff 0f 84 52 02 00 00 48 c7 82 80 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 4c 89 df 4c 89 14 24 e8 53 d3 4a f6 4c 8b 14 24 41 0f b6 42 13 <41> 89 87 70 01 00 00 41 0f b6 52 12 f6 c2 02 74 44 41 8b 42 1c b9 RSP: 0018:ffffaef7c0003e28 EFLAGS: 00000282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9bc9486dea60 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000102 RSI: ffffffffb76bbd0e RDI: 00000000ffffffff RBP: ffff9bc980099a00 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffff9bca53ef0000 R11: ffff9bc980099a10 R12: ffff9bc956e14000 R13: ffff9bc9836b9cb0 R14: ffff9bc9557b4480 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9bc97ec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000170 CR3: 0000000007e04000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: <IRQ> __ib_process_cq+0xb7/0x280 [ib_core] ib_poll_handler+0x2b/0x130 [ib_core] irq_poll_softirq+0x93/0x150 __do_softirq+0xee/0x4b8 irq_exit_rcu+0xf7/0x130 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x8e/0xc0 </IRQ>

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f022576aa03c2385ea7f2b27ee5b331e43abf624
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8edd49c94b4b08019ed7d6dd794fca8078a4deb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2c70f56f762e5dc3b0d7dc438fbb137cb116413
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12f35199a2c0551187edbf8eb01379f0598659fa

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