CVE-2022-50504
Status: AnalyzedMedium (5.5)—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term()
It's unsafe to use rtas_busy_delay() to handle a busy status from the ibm,os-term RTAS function in rtas_os_term():
Use rtas_busy_delay_time() instead, which signals without side effects whether to attempt the ibm,os-term RTAS call again.
Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:618 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0 preempt_count: 2, expected: 0 CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G D 6.0.0-rc5-02182-gf8553a572277-dirty #9 Call Trace: [c000000007b8f000] [c000000001337110] dump_stack_lvl+0xb4/0x110 (unreliable) [c000000007b8f040] [c0000000002440e4] __might_resched+0x394/0x3c0 [c000000007b8f0e0] [c00000000004f680] rtas_busy_delay+0x120/0x1b0 [c000000007b8f100] [c000000000052d04] rtas_os_term+0xb8/0xf4 [c000000007b8f180] [c0000000001150fc] pseries_panic+0x50/0x68 [c000000007b8f1f0] [c000000000036354] ppc_panic_platform_handler+0x34/0x50 [c000000007b8f210] [c0000000002303c4] notifier_call_chain+0xd4/0x1c0 [c000000007b8f2b0] [c0000000002306cc] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xac/0x1c0 [c000000007b8f2f0] [c0000000001d62b8] panic+0x228/0x4d0 [c000000007b8f390] [c0000000001e573c] do_exit+0x140c/0x1420 [c000000007b8f480] [c0000000001e586c] make_task_dead+0xdc/0x200
CVSS
- Version: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Base score: 5.5
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.16%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 4
- Score date: 10/5/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4768935b8cc2d2afeb7956292df0f6e2c49ca0a5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/482d990a5dd1027ee0b70a8a570d56749cac8103
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/515959eb49e6d218a46979d66f36fdef329ac7d2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c606e57eecc37d6b36d732b1ff7e55b7dc32dd4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f7e2fcab73372a371ab4017cbedf7a71f4f9b40
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7280fdb80bf0fe35d9b799fc7009f2cbe0a397d7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bed48651c87bef59ea1a9d6dbc381bcbc452f4ff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f413135b337c4e90c1e593c6613f8717e17bc724
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffa991a003abb4f8cb9e5004646bfe2d9a46912c
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