{"cve":"CVE-2022-50679","nvd":{"published":"2025-12-09T16:17:20.210","modified":"2026-06-17T05:23:59.090","status":"Deferred","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ni40e: Fix DMA mappings leak\n\nDuring reallocation of RX buffers, new DMA mappings are created for\nthose buffers.\n\nsteps for reproduction:\nwhile :\ndo\nfor ((i=0; i<=8160; i=i+32))\ndo\nethtool -G enp130s0f0 rx $i tx $i\nsleep 0.5\nethtool -g enp130s0f0\ndone\ndone\n\nThis resulted in crash:\ni40e 0000:01:00.1: Unable to allocate memory for the Rx descriptor ring, size=65536\nDriver BUG\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4300 at net/core/xdp.c:141 xdp_rxq_info_unreg+0x43/0x50\nCall Trace:\ni40e_free_rx_resources+0x70/0x80 [i40e]\ni40e_set_ringparam+0x27c/0x800 [i40e]\nethnl_set_rings+0x1b2/0x290\ngenl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x10f/0x150\ngenl_family_rcv_msg+0xb3/0x160\n? rings_fill_reply+0x1a0/0x1a0\ngenl_rcv_msg+0x47/0x90\n? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x160/0x160\nnetlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120\ngenl_rcv+0x24/0x40\nnetlink_unicast+0x196/0x230\nnetlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0\nsock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50\n__sys_sendto+0xee/0x160\n? handle_mm_fault+0xbe/0x1e0\n? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d3/0x2c0\n__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\ndo_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\nRIP: 0033:0x7f5eac8b035b\nMissing register, driver bug\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4300 at net/core/xdp.c:119 xdp_rxq_info_unreg_mem_model+0x69/0x140\nCall Trace:\nxdp_rxq_info_unreg+0x1e/0x50\ni40e_free_rx_resources+0x70/0x80 [i40e]\ni40e_set_ringparam+0x27c/0x800 [i40e]\nethnl_set_rings+0x1b2/0x290\ngenl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x10f/0x150\ngenl_family_rcv_msg+0xb3/0x160\n? rings_fill_reply+0x1a0/0x1a0\ngenl_rcv_msg+0x47/0x90\n? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x160/0x160\nnetlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120\ngenl_rcv+0x24/0x40\nnetlink_unicast+0x196/0x230\nnetlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0\nsock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50\n__sys_sendto+0xee/0x160\n? handle_mm_fault+0xbe/0x1e0\n? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d3/0x2c0\n__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\ndo_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca\nRIP: 0033:0x7f5eac8b035b\n\nThis was caused because of new buffers with different RX ring count should\nsubstitute older ones, but those buffers were freed in\ni40e_configure_rx_ring and reallocated again with i40e_alloc_rx_bi,\nthus kfree on rx_bi caused leak of already mapped DMA.\n\nFix this by reallocating ZC with rx_bi_zc struct when BPF program loads. Additionally\nreallocate back to rx_bi when BPF program unloads.\n\nIf BPF program is loaded/unloaded and XSK pools are created, reallocate\nRX queues accordingly in XSP_SETUP_XSK_POOL handler.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f499596dfa3db9b3172645b6de9e1096a669c95","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94a171c982b8a8137a00721c1e62bc2713435bca","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aae425efdfd1b1d8452260a3cb49344ebf20b1f5","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed5baf3d0a33caaca4cd4073ebb0854cc77a616d"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:16:40.427100871+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-50679","score":0.00244,"percentile":0.1568,"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."]}