# CVE-2022-49259: block: don't delete queue kobject before its children

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-26 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.16

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: don't delete queue kobject before its children kobjects aren't supposed to be deleted before their child kobjects are deleted. Apparently this is usually benign; however, a WARN will be triggered if one of the child kobjects has a named attribute group: sysfs group 'modes' not found for kobject 'crypto' WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at fs/sysfs/group.c:278 sysfs_remove_group+0x72/0x80 ... Call Trace: sysfs_remove_groups+0x29/0x40 fs/sysfs/group.c:312 __kobject_del+0x20/0x80 lib/kobject.c:611 kobject_cleanup+0xa4/0x140 lib/kobject.c:696 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:736 [inline] kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline] kobject_put+0x53/0x70 lib/kobject.c:753 blk_crypto_sysfs_unregister+0x10/0x20 block/blk-crypto-sysfs.c:159 blk_unregister_queue+0xb0/0x110 block/blk-sysfs.c:962 del_gendisk+0x117/0x250 block/genhd.c:610 Fix this by moving the kobject_del() and the corresponding kobject_uevent() to the correct place.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2001eb10f59363da930cdd6e086a2861986fa18
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84fe3ca6e7910beb47ec13509d484f84fa2a41ad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b5924a14d64487ebd51127b0358d06066ef5384
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efaa0e969261e97c1fdd8e0338e5dd3ba5b9219c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf0cb8686e55d9c022944bc6ba9e19e832889e83
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d7e32c8da45957326f56937e0471c686d1a7711
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f69288253e9fc7c495047720e523b9f1aba5712

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