Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-49531
CVE-2022-49531
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
loop: implement ->free_disk
Ensure that the lo_device which is stored in the gendisk private data is valid until the gendisk is freed. Currently the loop driver uses a lot of effort to make sure a device is not freed when it is still in use, but to to fix a potential deadlock this will be relaxed a bit soon.
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