# CVE-2022-50137: RDMA/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-06-18 · 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/irdma: Fix a window for use-after-free During a destroy CQ an interrupt may cause processing of a CQE after CQ resources are freed by irdma_cq_free_rsrc(). Fix this by moving the call to irdma_cq_free_rsrc() after the irdma_sc_cleanup_ceqes(), which is called under the cq_lock.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92520864ef9f912f38b403d172a0ded020683d55
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0abf2eef80295923b819ce89ff9edc1fe61be17c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/350ac793a03c8a30a3f2b27fc282cd1c67070763
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ecef7890b3aea78c8bbb501a4b5b8134367b821

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