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HistoryJun 24, 2024 - 1:52 p.m.

CVE-2024-38667 riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threads

2024-06-2413:52:25
Linux
github.com
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linux kernel
pt_regs corruption
riscv
secondary threads
stack overlap
cpu hotplug
v enabled
vulnerability fix

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threads

Top of the kernel thread stack should be reserved for pt_regs. However
this is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts.
Their stacks overlap with their pt_regs, so both may get corrupted.

Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28
(“riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving task_pt_regs(p) early”).
However that fix was not propagated to the secondary harts. The problem
has been noticed in some CPU hotplug tests with V enabled. The function
smp_callin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of pt_regs
structure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to save
or restore inexistent V context.

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial