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CVE-2022-50148

kernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kernfs: fix potential NULL dereference in __kernfs_remove When lockdep is enabled, lockdep_assert_held_write would cause potential NULL pointer dereference. Fix the following smatch warnings: fs/kernfs/dir.c:1353 __kernfs_remove() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'kn' (see line 1346)

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 393c3714081a53795bbff0e985d24146def6f57f before b871986d9d3071f5082664ac274d93f08db257cd; affected 393c3714081a53795bbff0e985d24146def6f57f before 4a9f35b8729c5bf13ea671c908c17ed74c48fc50; affected 393c3714081a53795bbff0e985d24146def6f57f before 72b5d5aef246a0387cefa23121dd90901c7a691a
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.17; unaffected 0 before 5.17; unaffected 5.18.18 through 5.18.*; unaffected 5.19.2 through 5.19.*; unaffected 6.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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