CVE-2021-46928

parisc: Clear stale IIR value on instruction access rights trap

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 27, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Feb 25, 2024

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Description

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

parisc: Clear stale IIR value on instruction access rights trap

When a trap 7 (Instruction access rights) occurs, this means the CPU couldn't execute an instruction due to missing execute permissions on the memory region. In this case it seems the CPU didn't even fetched the instruction from memory and thus did not store it in the cr19 (IIR) register before calling the trap handler. So, the trap handler will find some random old stale value in cr19.

This patch simply overwrites the stale IIR value with a constant magic "bad food" value (0xbaadf00d), in the hope people don't start to try to understand the various random IIR values in trap 7 dumps.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before d01e9ce1af6116f812491d3d3873d204f10ae0b8Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before e96373f0a5f484bc1e193f9951dcb3adf24bf3f7Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 484730e5862f6b872dca13840bed40fd7c60fa26Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 5.10.90 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.13 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16 and laterNot affected

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