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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated May 4, 2025

crypto: octeontx2 - remove CONFIG_DM_CRYPT check

CVE-2022-49262

Description

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

crypto: octeontx2 - remove CONFIG_DM_CRYPT check

No issues were found while using the driver with dm-crypt enabled. So CONFIG_DM_CRYPT check in the driver can be removed.

This also fixes the NULL pointer dereference in driver release if CONFIG_DM_CRYPT is enabled.

... Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 ... Call trace: crypto_unregister_alg+0x68/0xfc crypto_unregister_skciphers+0x44/0x60 otx2_cpt_crypto_exit+0x100/0x1a0 otx2_cptvf_remove+0xf8/0x200 pci_device_remove+0x3c/0xd4 __device_release_driver+0x188/0x234 device_release_driver+0x2c/0x4c ...

Affected products

84

Patches

0

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