{"cve":"CVE-2022-50291","nvd":{"published":"2025-09-15T15:15:40.400","modified":"2026-06-17T05:23:09.963","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkcm: annotate data-races around kcm->rx_psock\n\nkcm->rx_psock can be read locklessly in kcm_rfree().\nAnnotate the read and writes accordingly.\n\nWe do the same for kcm->rx_wait in the following patch.\n\nsyzbot reported:\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in kcm_rfree / unreserve_rx_kcm\n\nwrite to 0xffff888123d827b8 of 8 bytes by task 2758 on cpu 1:\nunreserve_rx_kcm+0x72/0x1f0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:313\nkcm_rcv_strparser+0x2b5/0x3a0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:373\n__strp_recv+0x64c/0xd20 net/strparser/strparser.c:301\nstrp_recv+0x6d/0x80 net/strparser/strparser.c:335\ntcp_read_sock+0x13e/0x5a0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1703\nstrp_read_sock net/strparser/strparser.c:358 [inline]\ndo_strp_work net/strparser/strparser.c:406 [inline]\nstrp_work+0xe8/0x180 net/strparser/strparser.c:415\nprocess_one_work+0x3d3/0x720 kernel/workqueue.c:2289\nworker_thread+0x618/0xa70 kernel/workqueue.c:2436\nkthread+0x1a9/0x1e0 kernel/kthread.c:376\nret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306\n\nread to 0xffff888123d827b8 of 8 bytes by task 5859 on cpu 0:\nkcm_rfree+0x14c/0x220 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:181\nskb_release_head_state+0x8e/0x160 net/core/skbuff.c:841\nskb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:852 [inline]\n__kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:868 [inline]\nkfree_skb_reason+0x5c/0x260 net/core/skbuff.c:891\nkfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1216 [inline]\nkcm_recvmsg+0x226/0x2b0 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:1161\n____sys_recvmsg+0x16c/0x2e0\n___sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2743 [inline]\ndo_recvmmsg+0x2f1/0x710 net/socket.c:2837\n__sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2916 [inline]\n__do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2939 [inline]\n__se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2932 [inline]\n__x64_sys_recvmmsg+0xde/0x160 net/socket.c:2932\ndo_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\ndo_syscall_64+0x2b/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nvalue changed: 0xffff88812971ce00 -> 0x0000000000000000\n\nReported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\nCPU: 0 PID: 5859 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-12189-g19d17ab7c68b-dirty #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12a0eb340c9a22e0f8c00d2c0c1a60695ead926a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13dba69e18d04c8eec7596369f2a0596b0260275","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15e4dabda11b0fa31d510a915d1a580f47dfc92e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b8a5692ab25db4ef1c2cc8e5d21f7a65dc3d079","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/342d918cf9a45df9cf11bbe7162b851adefd178f"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:08:41.295252406+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-50291","score":0.0016,"percentile":0.05105,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}