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CVE-2022-50476 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntb_netdev: Use dev_kfree_skb_any() in interrupt context TX/RX callback handlers (ntb_netdev_tx_handler(), ntb_netdev_rx_handler()) can be called in interrupt context via the DMA framework when the respective DMA operations have completed. As such, any calls by these routines to free skb's, should use the interrupt context safe dev_kfree_skb_any() function. Previously, these callback handlers would call the interrupt unsafe version of dev_kfree_skb(). This has not presented an issue on Intel IOAT DMA engines as that driver utilizes tasklets rather than a hard interrupt handler, like the AMD PTDMA DMA driver. On AMD systems, a kernel WARNING message is encountered, which is being issued from skb_release_head_state() due to in_hardirq() being true. Besides the user visible WARNING from the kernel, the other symptom of this bug was that TCP/IP performance across the ntb_netdev interface was very poor, i.e. approximately an order of magnitude below what was expected. With the repair to use dev_kfree_skb_any(), kernel WARNINGs from skb_release_head_state() ceased and TCP/IP performance, as measured by iperf, was on par with expected results, approximately 20 Gb/s on AMD Milan based server. Note that this performance is comparable with Intel based servers.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07e28a8f450217db679802ebd4de0915556ce846 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13286ad1c7c49c606fdcba4cf66f953a1a16c1ca kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14d245da57a11e80277ab455aa9b6dcc5ed38a19 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21296a52caa6a6bad6debdfe40ad81d4f1a27e69 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f7d78b2b12a9d561f48fa00bab29b40f4616dad kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b78493968ed3cef0326183ed059c55e42f24d5b kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6b9e09403102bdf8402dae734800e4916c7ea58 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4460c82177899751975180c268f352893302221 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd860b39aa7c7b82e6c99b6fdb99d4610ce49d67 kernel.org

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2022-50476
NVD Published Date:
10/04/2025
NVD Last Modified:
10/06/2025
Source:
kernel.org