linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-47226: x86/fpu: Invalidate FPU state after a failed XRSTOR from a user buffer

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Message-ID: <2024052137-CVE-2021-47226-5d4f@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:19:40 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-47226: x86/fpu: Invalidate FPU state after a failed XRSTOR from a user buffer

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 "complex
    microarchitectural conditions".

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47226 to this issue.

Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.2 with commit 1d731e731c4c and fixed in 5.10.46 with commit a7748e021b9f
	Issue introduced in 5.2 with commit 1d731e731c4c and fixed in 5.12.13 with commit 002665dcba4b
	Issue introduced in 5.2 with commit 1d731e731c4c and fixed in 5.13 with commit d8778e393afa

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2021-47226
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.

Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c

Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7748e021b9fb7739e3cb88449296539de0b6817
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/002665dcba4bbec8c82f0aeb4bd3f44334ed2c14
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8778e393afa421f1f117471144f8ce6deb6953a