CVE-2021-47226 x86/fpu: Invalidate FPU state after a failed XRSTOR from a user buffer

2024-05-2114:19:30

Linux

www.cve.org

cve-2021-47226

x86

linux kernel

fpu

xrstor

vulnerability

amd

intel

microarchitectural conditions

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

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

x86/fpu: Invalidate FPU state after a failed XRSTOR from a user buffer

Both Intel and AMD consider it to be architecturally valid for XRSTOR to
fail with #PF but nonetheless change the register state. The actual
conditions under which this might occur are unclear [1], but it seems
plausible that this might be triggered if one sibling thread unmaps a page
and invalidates the shared TLB while another sibling thread is executing
XRSTOR on the page in question.

__fpu__restore_sig() can execute XRSTOR while the hardware registers
are preserved on behalf of a different victim task (using the
fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx mechanism), and, in theory, XRSTOR could fail but
modify the registers.

If this happens, then there is a window in which __fpu__restore_sig()
could schedule out and the victim task could schedule back in without
reloading its own FPU registers. This would result in part of the FPU
state that __fpu__restore_sig() was attempting to load leaking into the
victim task’s user-visible state.

Invalidate preserved FPU registers on XRSTOR failure to prevent this
situation from corrupting any state.

[1] Frequent readers of the errata lists might imagine “complex
microarchitectural conditions”.

CNA Affected

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      "arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c"
    ],
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