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Linux Linux — ipv6: fix lockdep splat in in6_dump_addrs()
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0027 19.8 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 676457fe5ad19517a8b21d1c3f4d23512118f6a3 – —
Linux 5.13 – 5.15.53
TIMELINE
Feb 26 Reserved by Linux
Feb 26 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 24 ENRICHED — CVE-2022-49662 (Linux). Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: fix lockdep splat in in6_dump_addrs()
As reported by syzbot, we should not use rcu_dereference()
when rcu_read_lock() is not held.
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
5.19.0-rc2-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
net/ipv6/addrconf.c:5175 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by syz-executor326/3617:
#0: ffffffff8d5848e8 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: netlink_dump+0xae/0xc20 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2223
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 3617 Comm: syz-executor326 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc2-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
in6_dump_addrs+0x12d1/0x1790 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:5175
inet6_dump_addr+0x9c1/0xb50 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:5300
netlink_dump+0x541/0xc20 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2275
__netlink_dump_start+0x647/0x900 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2380
netlink_dump_start include/linux/netlink.h:245 [inline]
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x73e/0xc90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6046
netlink_rcv_skb+0x153/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2501
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x543/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
netlink_sendmsg+0x917/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0xcf/0x120 net/socket.c:734
____sys_sendmsg+0x6eb/0x810 net/socket.c:2492
___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2546
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2575 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2582 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x132/0x220 net/socket.c:2582
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| February 26, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| February 26, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 24, 2026 | ENRICHED | ENRICHED — CVE-2022-49662 (Linux). Received CVSS 5.5 and CPE data from NVD. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 676457fe5ad19517a8b21d1c3f4d23512118f6a3 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.13 | 5.15.53 |
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