CVE-2021-47350

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/mm: Fix lockup on kernel exec fault The powerpc kernel is not prepared to handle exec faults from kernel. Especially, the function isexecfault will return 'false' when an exec fault is taken by kernel, because the check i...

CVE-2021-47350 powerpc/mm: Fix lockup on kernel exec fault

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/mm: Fix lockup on kernel exec fault The powerpc kernel is not prepared to handle exec faults from kernel. Especially, the function isexecfault will return 'false' when an exec fault is taken by kernel, because the check i...

CVE-2021-47350

The Linux kernel on the powerpc platform is vulnerable to a lockup condition during a kernel exec fault . The issue stems from the is_exec_fault() function returning false because it incorrectly reads current->thread.regs->trap, which contains a user-space trap. On the 603 processor , speci...