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CVE-2022-48969 2 Linux, Redhat 2 Linux Kernel, Enterprise Linux 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen-netfront: Fix NULL sring after live migration A NAPI is setup for each network sring to poll data to kernel The sring with source host is destroyed before live migration and new sring with target host is setup after live migration. The NAPI for the old sring is not deleted until setup new sring with target host after migration. With busy_poll/busy_read enabled, the NAPI can be polled before got deleted when resume VM. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 IP: xennet_poll+0xae/0xd20 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI Call Trace: finish_task_switch+0x71/0x230 timerqueue_del+0x1d/0x40 hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0xb5/0x110 xennet_alloc_rx_buffers+0x2a0/0x2a0 napi_busy_loop+0xdb/0x270 sock_poll+0x87/0x90 do_sys_poll+0x26f/0x580 tracing_map_insert+0x1d4/0x2f0 event_hist_trigger+0x14a/0x260 finish_task_switch+0x71/0x230 __schedule+0x256/0x890 recalc_sigpending+0x1b/0x50 xen_sched_clock+0x15/0x20 __rb_reserve_next+0x12d/0x140 ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x123/0x3d0 event_triggers_call+0x87/0xb0 trace_event_buffer_commit+0x1c4/0x210 xen_clocksource_get_cycles+0x15/0x20 ktime_get_ts64+0x51/0xf0 SyS_ppoll+0x160/0x1a0 SyS_ppoll+0x160/0x1a0 do_syscall_64+0x73/0x130 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x41/0xa6 ... RIP: xennet_poll+0xae/0xd20 RSP: ffffb4f041933900 CR2: 0000000000000008 ---[ end trace f8601785b354351c ]--- xen frontend should remove the NAPIs for the old srings before live migration as the bond srings are destroyed There is a tiny window between the srings are set to NULL and the NAPIs are disabled, It is safe as the NAPI threads are still frozen at that time
CVE-2022-48968 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Fix potential memory leak in otx2_init_tc() In otx2_init_tc(), if rhashtable_init() failed, it does not free tc->tc_entries_bitmap which is allocated in otx2_tc_alloc_ent_bitmap().
CVE-2022-48966 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 7.1 High
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mvneta: Prevent out of bounds read in mvneta_config_rss() The pp->indir[0] value comes from the user. It is passed to: if (cpu_online(pp->rxq_def)) inside the mvneta_percpu_elect() function. It needs bounds checkeding to ensure that it is not beyond the end of the cpu bitmap.
CVE-2022-48965 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio/rockchip: fix refcount leak in rockchip_gpiolib_register() The node returned by of_get_parent() with refcount incremented, of_node_put() needs be called when finish using it. So add it in the end of of_pinctrl_get().
CVE-2022-48963 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: wwan: iosm: fix memory leak in ipc_mux_init() When failed to alloc ipc_mux->ul_adb.pp_qlt in ipc_mux_init(), ipc_mux is not released.
CVE-2022-48961 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mdio: fix unbalanced fwnode reference count in mdio_device_release() There is warning report about of_node refcount leak while probing mdio device: OF: ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2, of_node_get()/of_node_put() unbalanced - destroy cset entry: attach overlay node /spi/soc@0/mdio@710700c0/ethernet@4 In of_mdiobus_register_device(), we increase fwnode refcount by fwnode_handle_get() before associating the of_node with mdio device, but it has never been decreased in normal path. Since that, in mdio_device_release(), it needs to call fwnode_handle_put() in addition instead of calling kfree() directly. After above, just calling mdio_device_free() in the error handle path of of_mdiobus_register_device() is enough to keep the refcount balanced.
CVE-2022-48959 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: sja1105: fix memory leak in sja1105_setup_devlink_regions() When dsa_devlink_region_create failed in sja1105_setup_devlink_regions(), priv->regions is not released.
CVE-2022-48958 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethernet: aeroflex: fix potential skb leak in greth_init_rings() The greth_init_rings() function won't free the newly allocated skb when dma_mapping_error() returns error, so add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it. Compile tested only.
CVE-2022-48957 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dpaa2-switch: Fix memory leak in dpaa2_switch_acl_entry_add() and dpaa2_switch_acl_entry_remove() The cmd_buff needs to be freed when error happened in dpaa2_switch_acl_entry_add() and dpaa2_switch_acl_entry_remove().
CVE-2022-48956 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 7.8 High
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: avoid use-after-free in ip6_fragment() Blamed commit claimed rcu_read_lock() was held by ip6_fragment() callers. It seems to not be always true, at least for UDP stack. syzbot reported: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ip6_dst_idev include/net/ip6_fib.h:245 [inline] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ip6_fragment+0x2724/0x2770 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:951 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801d403e80 by task syz-executor.3/7618 CPU: 1 PID: 7618 Comm: syz-executor.3 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc6-syzkaller-00012-g4312098baf37 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xd1/0x138 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline] print_report+0x15e/0x45d mm/kasan/report.c:395 kasan_report+0xbf/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:495 ip6_dst_idev include/net/ip6_fib.h:245 [inline] ip6_fragment+0x2724/0x2770 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:951 __ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:193 [inline] ip6_finish_output+0x9a3/0x1170 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:206 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:291 [inline] ip6_output+0x1f1/0x540 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:227 dst_output include/net/dst.h:445 [inline] ip6_local_out+0xb3/0x1a0 net/ipv6/output_core.c:161 ip6_send_skb+0xbb/0x340 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1966 udp_v6_send_skb+0x82a/0x18a0 net/ipv6/udp.c:1286 udp_v6_push_pending_frames+0x140/0x200 net/ipv6/udp.c:1313 udpv6_sendmsg+0x18da/0x2c80 net/ipv6/udp.c:1606 inet6_sendmsg+0x9d/0xe0 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:665 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0xd3/0x120 net/socket.c:734 sock_write_iter+0x295/0x3d0 net/socket.c:1108 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2191 [inline] new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline] vfs_write+0x9ed/0xdd0 fs/read_write.c:584 ksys_write+0x1ec/0x250 fs/read_write.c:637 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7fde3588c0d9 Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 f1 19 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007fde365b6168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fde359ac050 RCX: 00007fde3588c0d9 RDX: 000000000000ffdc RSI: 00000000200000c0 RDI: 000000000000000a RBP: 00007fde358e7ae9 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007fde35acfb1f R14: 00007fde365b6300 R15: 0000000000022000 </TASK> Allocated by task 7618: kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:45 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x82/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:325 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:737 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3398 [inline] slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3406 [inline] __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3413 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2b4/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:3422 dst_alloc+0x14a/0x1f0 net/core/dst.c:92 ip6_dst_alloc+0x32/0xa0 net/ipv6/route.c:344 ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc net/ipv6/route.c:1369 [inline] rt6_make_pcpu_route net/ipv6/route.c:1417 [inline] ip6_pol_route+0x901/0x1190 net/ipv6/route.c:2254 pol_lookup_func include/net/ip6_fib.h:582 [inline] fib6_rule_lookup+0x52e/0x6f0 net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:121 ip6_route_output_flags_noref+0x2e6/0x380 net/ipv6/route.c:2625 ip6_route_output_flags+0x76/0x320 net/ipv6/route.c:2638 ip6_route_output include/net/ip6_route.h:98 [inline] ip6_dst_lookup_tail+0x5ab/0x1620 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1092 ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x90/0x1d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1222 ip6_sk_dst_lookup_flow+0x553/0x980 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1260 udpv6_sendmsg+0x151d/0x2c80 net/ipv6/udp.c:1554 inet6_sendmsg+0x9d/0xe0 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:665 sock_sendmsg_nosec n ---truncated---
CVE-2022-48955 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: thunderbolt: fix memory leak in tbnet_open() When tb_ring_alloc_rx() failed in tbnet_open(), ida that allocated in tb_xdomain_alloc_out_hopid() is not released. Add tb_xdomain_release_out_hopid() to the error path to release ida.
CVE-2022-48953 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rtc: cmos: Fix event handler registration ordering issue Because acpi_install_fixed_event_handler() enables the event automatically on success, it is incorrect to call it before the handler routine passed to it is ready to handle events. Unfortunately, the rtc-cmos driver does exactly the incorrect thing by calling cmos_wake_setup(), which passes rtc_handler() to acpi_install_fixed_event_handler(), before cmos_do_probe(), because rtc_handler() uses dev_get_drvdata() to get to the cmos object pointer and the driver data pointer is only populated in cmos_do_probe(). This leads to a NULL pointer dereference in rtc_handler() on boot if the RTC fixed event happens to be active at the init time. To address this issue, change the initialization ordering of the driver so that cmos_wake_setup() is always called after a successful cmos_do_probe() call. While at it, change cmos_pnp_probe() to call cmos_do_probe() after the initial if () statement used for computing the IRQ argument to be passed to cmos_do_probe() which is cleaner than calling it in each branch of that if () (local variable "irq" can be of type int, because it is passed to that function as an argument of type int). Note that commit 6492fed7d8c9 ("rtc: rtc-cmos: Do not check ACPI_FADT_LOW_POWER_S0") caused this issue to affect a larger number of systems, because previously it only affected systems with ACPI_FADT_LOW_POWER_S0 set, but it is present regardless of that commit.
CVE-2022-48949 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: igb: Initialize mailbox message for VF reset When a MAC address is not assigned to the VF, that portion of the message sent to the VF is not set. The memory, however, is allocated from the stack meaning that information may be leaked to the VM. Initialize the message buffer to 0 so that no information is passed to the VM in this case.
CVE-2022-48948 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 7.8 High
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: uvc: Prevent buffer overflow in setup handler Setup function uvc_function_setup permits control transfer requests with up to 64 bytes of payload (UVC_MAX_REQUEST_SIZE), data stage handler for OUT transfer uses memcpy to copy req->actual bytes to uvc_event->data.data array of size 60. This may result in an overflow of 4 bytes.
CVE-2022-48942 2 Linux, Redhat 2 Linux Kernel, Enterprise Linux 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: Handle failure to register sensor with thermal zone correctly If an attempt is made to a sensor with a thermal zone and it fails, the call to devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register() may return -ENODEV. This may result in crashes similar to the following. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000003cd ... Internal error: Oops: 96000021 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : mutex_lock+0x18/0x60 lr : thermal_zone_device_update+0x40/0x2e0 sp : ffff800014c4fc60 x29: ffff800014c4fc60 x28: ffff365ee3f6e000 x27: ffffdde218426790 x26: ffff365ee3f6e000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff365ee3f6e000 x23: ffffdde218426870 x22: ffff365ee3f6e000 x21: 00000000000003cd x20: ffff365ee8bf3308 x19: ffffffffffffffed x18: 0000000000000000 x17: ffffdde21842689c x16: ffffdde1cb7a0b7c x15: 0000000000000040 x14: ffffdde21a4889a0 x13: 0000000000000228 x12: 0000000000000000 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : 0000000001120000 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : 0068000878e20f07 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 00000000000003cd x2 : ffff365ee3f6e000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 00000000000003cd Call trace: mutex_lock+0x18/0x60 hwmon_notify_event+0xfc/0x110 0xffffdde1cb7a0a90 0xffffdde1cb7a0b7c irq_thread_fn+0x2c/0xa0 irq_thread+0x134/0x240 kthread+0x178/0x190 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Code: d503201f d503201f d2800001 aa0103e4 (c8e47c02) Jon Hunter reports that the exact call sequence is: hwmon_notify_event() --> hwmon_thermal_notify() --> thermal_zone_device_update() --> update_temperature() --> mutex_lock() The hwmon core needs to handle all errors returned from calls to devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(). If the call fails with -ENODEV, report that the sensor was not attached to a thermal zone but continue to register the hwmon device.
CVE-2022-48939 2 Linux, Redhat 2 Linux Kernel, Enterprise Linux 2025-05-04 3.3 Low
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Add schedule points in batch ops syzbot reported various soft lockups caused by bpf batch operations. INFO: task kworker/1:1:27 blocked for more than 140 seconds. INFO: task hung in rcu_barrier Nothing prevents batch ops to process huge amount of data, we need to add schedule points in them. Note that maybe_wait_bpf_programs(map) calls from generic_map_delete_batch() can be factorized by moving the call after the loop. This will be done later in -next tree once we get this fix merged, unless there is strong opinion doing this optimization sooner.
CVE-2022-48937 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 3.3 Low
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: add a schedule point in io_add_buffers() Looping ~65535 times doing kmalloc() calls can trigger soft lockups, especially with DEBUG features (like KASAN). [ 253.536212] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#64 stuck for 26s! [b219417889:12575] [ 253.544433] Modules linked in: vfat fat i2c_mux_pca954x i2c_mux spidev cdc_acm xhci_pci xhci_hcd sha3_generic gq(O) [ 253.544451] CPU: 64 PID: 12575 Comm: b219417889 Tainted: G S O 5.17.0-smp-DEV #801 [ 253.544457] RIP: 0010:kernel_text_address (./include/asm-generic/sections.h:192 ./include/linux/kallsyms.h:29 kernel/extable.c:67 kernel/extable.c:98) [ 253.544464] Code: 0f 93 c0 48 c7 c1 e0 63 d7 a4 48 39 cb 0f 92 c1 20 c1 0f b6 c1 5b 5d c3 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 53 48 89 fb <48> c7 c0 00 00 80 a0 41 be 01 00 00 00 48 39 c7 72 0c 48 c7 c0 40 [ 253.544468] RSP: 0018:ffff8882d8baf4c0 EFLAGS: 00000246 [ 253.544471] RAX: 1ffff1105b175e00 RBX: ffffffffa13ef09a RCX: 00000000a13ef001 [ 253.544474] RDX: ffffffffa13ef09a RSI: ffff8882d8baf558 RDI: ffffffffa13ef09a [ 253.544476] RBP: ffff8882d8baf4d8 R08: ffff8882d8baf5e0 R09: 0000000000000004 [ 253.544479] R10: ffff8882d8baf5e8 R11: ffffffffa0d59a50 R12: ffff8882eab20380 [ 253.544481] R13: ffffffffa0d59a50 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 1ffff1105b175eb0 [ 253.544483] FS: 00000000016d3380(0000) GS:ffff88af48c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 253.544486] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 253.544488] CR2: 00000000004af0f0 CR3: 00000002eabfa004 CR4: 00000000003706e0 [ 253.544491] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 253.544492] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 253.544494] Call Trace: [ 253.544496] <TASK> [ 253.544498] ? io_queue_sqe (fs/io_uring.c:7143) [ 253.544505] __kernel_text_address (kernel/extable.c:78) [ 253.544508] unwind_get_return_address (arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c:19) [ 253.544514] arch_stack_walk (arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:27) [ 253.544517] ? io_queue_sqe (fs/io_uring.c:7143) [ 253.544521] stack_trace_save (kernel/stacktrace.c:123) [ 253.544527] ____kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:39 mm/kasan/common.c:45 mm/kasan/common.c:436 mm/kasan/common.c:515) [ 253.544531] ? ____kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:39 mm/kasan/common.c:45 mm/kasan/common.c:436 mm/kasan/common.c:515) [ 253.544533] ? __kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:524) [ 253.544535] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace (./include/linux/kasan.h:270 mm/slab.c:3567) [ 253.544541] ? io_issue_sqe (fs/io_uring.c:4556 fs/io_uring.c:4589 fs/io_uring.c:6828) [ 253.544544] ? __io_queue_sqe (fs/io_uring.c:?) [ 253.544551] __kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:524) [ 253.544553] kmem_cache_alloc_trace (./include/linux/kasan.h:270 mm/slab.c:3567) [ 253.544556] ? io_issue_sqe (fs/io_uring.c:4556 fs/io_uring.c:4589 fs/io_uring.c:6828) [ 253.544560] io_issue_sqe (fs/io_uring.c:4556 fs/io_uring.c:4589 fs/io_uring.c:6828) [ 253.544564] ? __kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:45 mm/kasan/common.c:436 mm/kasan/common.c:469) [ 253.544567] ? __kasan_slab_alloc (mm/kasan/common.c:39 mm/kasan/common.c:45 mm/kasan/common.c:436 mm/kasan/common.c:469) [ 253.544569] ? kmem_cache_alloc_bulk (mm/slab.h:732 mm/slab.c:3546) [ 253.544573] ? __io_alloc_req_refill (fs/io_uring.c:2078) [ 253.544578] ? io_submit_sqes (fs/io_uring.c:7441) [ 253.544581] ? __se_sys_io_uring_enter (fs/io_uring.c:10154 fs/io_uring.c:10096) [ 253.544584] ? __x64_sys_io_uring_enter (fs/io_uring.c:10096) [ 253.544587] ? do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80) [ 253.544590] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (??:?) [ 253.544596] __io_queue_sqe (fs/io_uring.c:?) [ 253.544600] io_queue_sqe (fs/io_uring.c:7143) [ 253.544603] io_submit_sqe (fs/io_uring.c:?) [ 253.544608] io_submit_sqes (fs/io_uring.c:?) [ 253.544612] __se_sys_io_uring_enter (fs/io_uring.c:10154 fs/io_uri ---truncated---
CVE-2022-48934 2 Linux, Redhat 2 Linux Kernel, Enterprise Linux 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfp: flower: Fix a potential leak in nfp_tunnel_add_shared_mac() ida_simple_get() returns an id between min (0) and max (NFP_MAX_MAC_INDEX) inclusive. So NFP_MAX_MAC_INDEX (0xff) is a valid id. In order for the error handling path to work correctly, the 'invalid' value for 'ida_idx' should not be in the 0..NFP_MAX_MAC_INDEX range, inclusive. So set it to -1.
CVE-2022-48933 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 5.5 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak during stateful obj update stateful objects can be updated from the control plane. The transaction logic allocates a temporary object for this purpose. The ->init function was called for this object, so plain kfree() leaks resources. We must call ->destroy function of the object. nft_obj_destroy does this, but it also decrements the module refcount, but the update path doesn't increment it. To avoid special-casing the update object release, do module_get for the update case too and release it via nft_obj_destroy().
CVE-2022-48931 1 Linux 1 Linux Kernel 2025-05-04 4.7 Medium
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: configfs: fix a race in configfs_{,un}register_subsystem() When configfs_register_subsystem() or configfs_unregister_subsystem() is executing link_group() or unlink_group(), it is possible that two processes add or delete list concurrently. Some unfortunate interleavings of them can cause kernel panic. One of cases is: A --> B --> C --> D A <-- B <-- C <-- D delete list_head *B | delete list_head *C --------------------------------|----------------------------------- configfs_unregister_subsystem | configfs_unregister_subsystem unlink_group | unlink_group unlink_obj | unlink_obj list_del_init | list_del_init __list_del_entry | __list_del_entry __list_del | __list_del // next == C | next->prev = prev | | next->prev = prev prev->next = next | | // prev == B | prev->next = next Fix this by adding mutex when calling link_group() or unlink_group(), but parent configfs_subsystem is NULL when config_item is root. So I create a mutex configfs_subsystem_mutex.