# CVE-2022-49208: RDMA/irdma: Prevent some integer underflows

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-26 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.14

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/irdma: Prevent some integer underflows My static checker complains that: drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/ctrl.c:3605 irdma_sc_ceq_init() warn: can subtract underflow 'info->dev->hmc_fpm_misc.max_ceqs'? It appears that "info->dev->hmc_fpm_misc.max_ceqs" comes from the firmware in irdma_sc_parse_fpm_query_buf() so, yes, there is a chance that it could be zero. Even if we trust the firmware, it's easy enough to change the condition just as a hardenning measure.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d52dab6e03550f9c97121b0c11c0a3ed78ee76a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f21056f15bbeacab7b4b87af232f5599d1f2bff1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7340c3675d7ac946f4019b84cd7c64ed542dfe4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f6dbb819dfc1a35bcb8b709b5c83a3ea8beff75

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