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Medium severity6.2NVD Advisory· Published Apr 28, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-48635

CVE-2022-48635

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fsdax: Fix infinite loop in dax_iomap_rw()

I got an infinite loop and a WARNING report when executing a tail command in virtiofs.

WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 964 at fs/iomap/iter.c:34 iomap_iter+0x3a2/0x3d0 Modules linked in: CPU: 10 PID: 964 Comm: tail Not tainted 5.19.0-rc7 Call Trace:

dax_iomap_rw+0xea/0x620 ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x13/0x20 fuse_dax_read_iter+0x47/0x80 fuse_file_read_iter+0xae/0xd0 new_sync_read+0xfe/0x180 ? 0xffffffff81000000 vfs_read+0x14d/0x1a0 ksys_read+0x6d/0xf0 __x64_sys_read+0x1a/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

The tail command will call read() with a count of 0. In this case, iomap_iter() will report this WARNING, and always return 1 which casuing the infinite loop in dax_iomap_rw().

Fixing by checking count whether is 0 in dax_iomap_rw().

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Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernel9 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 8 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.15,<5.15.71
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.0:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 5.15
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 5.15.0, < 5.15.71

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