Bug 2373554 (CVE-2022-50151) - CVE-2022-50151 kernel: usb: cdns3: fix random warning message when driver load
Summary: CVE-2022-50151 kernel: usb: cdns3: fix random warning message when driver load
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50151
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:08 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-19 13:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:08:04 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: cdns3: fix random warning message when driver load

Warning log:
[    4.141392] Unexpected gfp: 0x4 (GFP_DMA32). Fixing up to gfp: 0xa20 (GFP_ATOMIC). Fix your code!
[    4.150340] CPU: 1 PID: 175 Comm: 1-0050 Not tainted 5.15.5-00039-g2fd9ae1b568c #20
[    4.158010] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX8QXP MEK (DT)
[    4.163155] Call trace:
[    4.165600]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1b0
[    4.169286]  show_stack+0x18/0x68
[    4.172611]  dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
[    4.176286]  dump_stack+0x18/0x34
[    4.179613]  kmalloc_fix_flags+0x60/0x88
[    4.183550]  new_slab+0x334/0x370
[    4.186878]  ___slab_alloc.part.108+0x4d4/0x748
[    4.191419]  __slab_alloc.isra.109+0x30/0x78
[    4.195702]  kmem_cache_alloc+0x40c/0x420
[    4.199725]  dma_pool_alloc+0xac/0x1f8
[    4.203486]  cdns3_allocate_trb_pool+0xb4/0xd0

pool_alloc_page(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags)
{
	...
	page = kmalloc(sizeof(*page), mem_flags);
	page->vaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(pool->dev, pool->allocation,
					 &page->dma, mem_flags);
	...
}

kmalloc was called with mem_flags, which is passed down in
cdns3_allocate_trb_pool() and have GFP_DMA32 flags.
kmall_fix_flags() report warning.

GFP_DMA32 is not useful at all. dma_alloc_coherent() will handle
DMA memory region correctly by pool->dev. GFP_DMA32 can be removed
safely.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 13:16:58 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061822-CVE-2022-50151-6132@gregkh/T


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