CVE-2022-50218

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50218
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50218.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-50218
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-06-18T11:03:54.101Z
Modified
2026-04-03T13:14:37.838324546Z
Summary
iio: light: isl29028: Fix the warning in isl29028_remove()
Details

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

iio: light: isl29028: Fix the warning in isl29028_remove()

The driver use the non-managed form of the register function in isl29028_remove(). To keep the release order as mirroring the ordering in probe, the driver should use non-managed form in probe, too.

The following log reveals it:

[ 32.374955] isl29028 0-0010: remove [ 32.376861] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI [ 32.377676] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037] [ 32.379432] RIP: 0010:kernfsfindandgetns+0x28/0xe0 [ 32.385461] Call Trace: [ 32.385807] sysfsunmergegroup+0x59/0x110 [ 32.386110] dpmsysfsremove+0x58/0xc0 [ 32.386391] devicedel+0x296/0xe50 [ 32.386959] cdevdevicedel+0x1d/0xd0 [ 32.387231] devmiiodeviceunreg+0x27/0xb0 [ 32.387542] devresreleasegroup+0x319/0x3d0 [ 32.388162] i2cdeviceremove+0x93/0x1f0

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/50xxx/CVE-2022-50218.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
2db5054ac28d4ab2eaa6c67e2d9f61fa5ba006b8
Fixed
ca63d5abf404d2934e2ac03545350de7bb8c8e96
Fixed
359f3b150eab30805fe0e4e9d616887d7257a625
Fixed
ed43fb20d3d1fca9d79db0d5faf4321a4dd58c23
Fixed
fb1888205c0782f287e5dd4ffff1f665332e868c
Fixed
fac589fb764699a4bcd288f6656b8cd0408ea968
Fixed
4f0ebfb4b9bfad2326c0b2c3cc7e37f4b9ee9eba
Fixed
a1135205b0affd255510775a27df571aca84ab4b
Fixed
06674fc7c003b9d0aa1d37fef7ab2c24802cc6ad

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-50218.json"