# CVE-2022-50540: dmaengine: qcom-adm: fix wrong sizeof config in slave\_config

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-07 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.17

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: qcom-adm: fix wrong sizeof config in slave_config Fix broken slave_config function that uncorrectly compare the peripheral_size with the size of the config pointer instead of the size of the config struct. This cause the crci value to be ignored and cause a kernel panic on any slave that use adm driver. To fix this, compare to the size of the struct and NOT the size of the pointer.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1dd45a6585a1689e1e8906b3f9e302b9d40c715
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7490274b41a432824f7df5071ace3df2ab59caa7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c8765308371be30f50c1b5b97618b731514b207

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