CVE - CVE-2021-46990

CVE-ID
CVE-2021-46990	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b4eb172cc12dc102cd0ad013e53ee4463db9508 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b4eb172cc12dc102cd0ad013e53ee4463db9508 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c25a7bb697f2e6ee65b6d63782f675bf129511a URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c25a7bb697f2e6ee65b6d63782f675bf129511a MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2db22ba4e0e103f00e0512e0ecce36ac78c644f8 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2db22ba4e0e103f00e0512e0ecce36ac78c644f8 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bc00fdda1e934c557351a9c751a205293e68cbf URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bc00fdda1e934c557351a9c751a205293e68cbf MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8382b15864e5014261b4f36c2aa89723612ee058 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8382b15864e5014261b4f36c2aa89723612ee058 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aec86b052df6541cc97c5fca44e5934cbea4963b URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aec86b052df6541cc97c5fca44e5934cbea4963b MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2e3590ca39ccfd8a5a46d8c7f095cb6c7b9ae92 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2e3590ca39ccfd8a5a46d8c7f095cb6c7b9ae92 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd0d6117052faace5440db20fc37175efe921c7d URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd0d6117052faace5440db20fc37175efe921c7d MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee4b7aab93c2631c3bb0753023c5dda592bb666b URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee4b7aab93c2631c3bb0753023c5dda592bb666b
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kernel.org
Date Record Created
20240227	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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