CVE-2022-49440 Information
Mar 01, 2025
cve
Description
In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/rtas: Keep MSR[RI] set when calling RTAS
RTAS runs in real mode (MSR[DR] and MSR[IR] unset) and in 32-bit big
endian mode (MSR[SFLE] unset).
The change in MSR is done in enter_rtas() in a relatively complex way
since the MSR value could be hardcoded.
Furthermore a panic has been reported when hitting the watchdog interrupt
while running in RTAS this leads to the following stack trace:
watchdog: CPU 24 Hard LOCKUP
watchdog: CPU 24 TB:997512652051031 last heartbeat TB:997504470175378 (15980ms ago)
…
Supported: No Unreleased kernel
CPU: 24 PID: 87504 Comm: drmgr Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E X 5.14.21-150400.71.1.bz196362_2-default 1 SLE15-SP4 (unreleased) 0d821077ef4faa8dfaf370efb5fdca1fa35f4e2c
NIP: 000000001fb41050 LR: 000000001fb4104c CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c00000000fc33d60 TRAP: 0100 Tainted: G E X (5.14.21-150400.71.1.bz196362_2-default)
MSR: 8000000002981000 CR: 48800002 XER: 20040020
CFAR: 000000000000011c IRQMASK: 1
GPR00: 0000000000000003 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000001 00000000000050dc
GPR04: 000000001ffb6100 0000000000000020 0000000000000001 000000001fb09010
GPR08: 0000000020000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR12: 80040000072a40a8 c00000000ff8b680 0000000000000007 0000000000000034
GPR16: 000000001fbf6e94 000000001fbf6d84 000000001fbd1db0 000000001fb3f008
GPR20: 000000001fb41018 ffffffffffffffff 000000000000017f fffffffffffff68f
GPR24: 000000001fb18fe8 000000001fb3e000 000000001fb1adc0 000000001fb1cf40
GPR28: 000000001fb26000 000000001fb460f0 000000001fb17f18 000000001fb17000
NIP [000000001fb41050] 0x1fb41050
LR [000000001fb4104c] 0x1fb4104c
Call Trace:
Instruction dump:
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
Oops: Unrecoverable System Reset sig: 6 [1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
…
Supported: No Unreleased kernel
CPU: 24 PID: 87504 Comm: drmgr Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E X 5.14.21-150400.71.1.bz196362_2-default 1 SLE15-SP4 (unreleased) 0d821077ef4faa8dfaf370efb5fdca1fa35f4e2c
NIP: 000000001fb41050 LR: 000000001fb4104c CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c00000000fc33d60 TRAP: 0100 Tainted: G E X (5.14.21-150400.71.1.bz196362_2-default)
MSR: 8000000002981000 CR: 48800002 XER: 20040020
CFAR: 000000000000011c IRQMASK: 1
GPR00: 0000000000000003 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000001 00000000000050dc
GPR04: 000000001ffb6100 0000000000000020 0000000000000001 000000001fb09010
GPR08: 0000000020000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR12: 80040000072a40a8 c00000000ff8b680 0000000000000007 0000000000000034
GPR16: 000000001fbf6e94 000000001fbf6d84 000000001fbd1db0 000000001fb3f008
GPR20: 000000001fb41018 ffffffffffffffff 000000000000017f fffffffffffff68f
GPR24: 000000001fb18fe8 000000001fb3e000 000000001fb1adc0 000000001fb1cf40
GPR28: 000000001fb26000 000000001fb460f0 000000001fb17f18 000000001fb17000
NIP [000000001fb41050] 0x1fb41050
LR [000000001fb4104c] 0x1fb4104c
Call Trace:
Instruction dump:
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
—[ end trace 3ddec07f638c34a2 ]—
This happens because MSR[RI] is unset when entering RTAS but there is no
valid reason to not set it here.
RTAS is expected to be called with MSR[RI] as specified in PAPR+ section
\7.2.1 Machine State:
R1–7.2.1–9. If called with MSR[RI] equal to 1 then RTAS must protect
its own critical regions from recursion by setting the MSR[RI] bit to
0 when in the critical regions.
Fixing this by reviewing the way MSR is compute before calling RTAS. Now a
hardcoded value meaning real
truncated—
Reference
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ca40fcf0da0ce2b5bc44e7d8b036535955f2e3d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f4367448f6817c8a0e94dc9736ed84fa8eee4a3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6b1c3ce06ca438eb24e0f45bf0e63ecad0369f5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9c41f0273826a13ac93124e66a4ff45df281ba0
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