Bug 2363491 (CVE-2022-49903)

Summary:	CVE-2022-49903 kernel: ipv6: fix WARNING in ip6_route_net_exit_late()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:06:55 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: fix WARNING in ip6_route_net_exit_late()

During the initialization of ip6_route_net_init_late(), if file
ipv6_route or rt6_stats fails to be created, the initialization is
successful by default. Therefore, the ipv6_route or rt6_stats file
doesn't be found during the remove in ip6_route_net_exit_late(). It
will cause WRNING.

The following is the stack information:
name 'rt6_stats'
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at fs/proc/generic.c:712 remove_proc_entry+0x389/0x460
Modules linked in:
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
RIP: 0010:remove_proc_entry+0x389/0x460
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ops_exit_list+0xb0/0x170
cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00
process_one_work+0x9bf/0x1710
worker_thread+0x665/0x1080
kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 06:06:53 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050102-CVE-2022-49903-23a6@gregkh/T