CVE-2021-47226 Information

Description

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 ## Reference https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7748e021b9fb7739e3cb88449296539de0b6817 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/002665dcba4bbec8c82f0aeb4bd3f44334ed2c14 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8778e393afa421f1f117471144f8ce6deb6953a