In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/64s: Fix crashes when toggling entry flush barrier The entry flush
mitigation can be enabled/disabled at runtime via a debugfs file
(entry_flush), which causes the kernel to patch itself to enable/disable
the relevant mitigations. However depending on which mitigation we’re
using, it may not be safe to do that patching while other CPUs are active.
For example the following crash: sleeper[15639]: segfault (11) at
c000000000004c20 nip c000000000004c20 lr c000000000004c20 Shows that we
returned to userspace with a corrupted LR that points into the kernel, due
to executing the partially patched call to the fallback entry flush (ie. we
missed the LR restore). Fix it by doing the patching under stop machine.
The CPUs that aren’t doing the patching will be spinning in the core of the
stop machine logic. That is currently sufficient for our purposes, because
none of the patching we do is to that code or anywhere in the vicinity.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | linux | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux | < 5.4.0-80.90 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux | < 4.4.0-253.287 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < 5.4.0-1054.57 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 14.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < 4.4.0-1130.136 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-aws | < 4.4.0-1168.183 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | linux-aws-5.4 | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-aws-hwe | < 4.15.0-1109.116~16.04.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | linux-azure | < 5.4.0-1055.57 | UNKNOWN |
git.kernel.org/linus/aec86b052df6541cc97c5fca44e5934cbea4963b (5.13-rc2)
git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b4eb172cc12dc102cd0ad013e53ee4463db9508
git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c25a7bb697f2e6ee65b6d63782f675bf129511a
git.kernel.org/stable/c/2db22ba4e0e103f00e0512e0ecce36ac78c644f8
git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bc00fdda1e934c557351a9c751a205293e68cbf
git.kernel.org/stable/c/8382b15864e5014261b4f36c2aa89723612ee058
git.kernel.org/stable/c/aec86b052df6541cc97c5fca44e5934cbea4963b
git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2e3590ca39ccfd8a5a46d8c7f095cb6c7b9ae92
git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd0d6117052faace5440db20fc37175efe921c7d
git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee4b7aab93c2631c3bb0753023c5dda592bb666b
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2021-46990
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46990
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-46990
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6739-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-46990