CVE-2022-50151
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/06/2025
Last modified:
18/06/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
usb: cdns3: fix random warning message when driver load<br />
<br />
Warning log:<br />
[ 4.141392] Unexpected gfp: 0x4 (GFP_DMA32). Fixing up to gfp: 0xa20 (GFP_ATOMIC). Fix your code!<br />
[ 4.150340] CPU: 1 PID: 175 Comm: 1-0050 Not tainted 5.15.5-00039-g2fd9ae1b568c #20<br />
[ 4.158010] Hardware name: Freescale i.MX8QXP MEK (DT)<br />
[ 4.163155] Call trace:<br />
[ 4.165600] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1b0<br />
[ 4.169286] show_stack+0x18/0x68<br />
[ 4.172611] dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84<br />
[ 4.176286] dump_stack+0x18/0x34<br />
[ 4.179613] kmalloc_fix_flags+0x60/0x88<br />
[ 4.183550] new_slab+0x334/0x370<br />
[ 4.186878] ___slab_alloc.part.108+0x4d4/0x748<br />
[ 4.191419] __slab_alloc.isra.109+0x30/0x78<br />
[ 4.195702] kmem_cache_alloc+0x40c/0x420<br />
[ 4.199725] dma_pool_alloc+0xac/0x1f8<br />
[ 4.203486] cdns3_allocate_trb_pool+0xb4/0xd0<br />
<br />
pool_alloc_page(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags)<br />
{<br />
...<br />
page = kmalloc(sizeof(*page), mem_flags);<br />
page->vaddr = dma_alloc_coherent(pool->dev, pool->allocation,<br />
&page->dma, mem_flags);<br />
...<br />
}<br />
<br />
kmalloc was called with mem_flags, which is passed down in<br />
cdns3_allocate_trb_pool() and have GFP_DMA32 flags.<br />
kmall_fix_flags() report warning.<br />
<br />
GFP_DMA32 is not useful at all. dma_alloc_coherent() will handle<br />
DMA memory region correctly by pool->dev. GFP_DMA32 can be removed<br />
safely.