Bug 2396505 (CVE-2022-50415)

Summary: CVE-2022-50415 kernel: parisc: led: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in start_task()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 17:02:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

parisc: led: Fix potential null-ptr-deref in start_task()

start_task() calls create_singlethread_workqueue() and not checked the
ret value, which may return NULL. And a null-ptr-deref may happen:

start_task()
    create_singlethread_workqueue() # failed, led_wq is NULL
    queue_delayed_work()
        queue_delayed_work_on()
            __queue_delayed_work()  # warning here, but continue
                __queue_work()      # access wq->flags, null-ptr-deref

Check the ret value and return -ENOMEM if it is NULL.