CVE-2026-72028

riscv: probes: save original sp in rethook trampoline

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

riscv: probes: save original sp in rethook trampoline

Reading a word from the stack in a kretprobe crashes a risc-v kernel.

$ cd /sys/kernel/tracing/ $ echo 'r n_tty_write $stack0' > dynamic_events $ echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000200000128 ... [<ffffffff80016d16>] regs_get_kernel_stack_nth+0x26/0x38 [<ffffffff80177196>] process_fetch_insn+0x3ee/0x760 [<ffffffff80177836>] kretprobe_trace_func+0x116/0x1f0 [<ffffffff8017795a>] kretprobe_dispatcher+0x4a/0x58 [<ffffffff8013572e>] kretprobe_rethook_handler+0x5e/0x90 [<ffffffff80180838>] rethook_trampoline_handler+0x70/0x108 [<ffffffff8001ba32>] arch_rethook_trampoline_callback+0x12/0x1c [<ffffffff8001ba84>] arch_rethook_trampoline+0x48/0x94 [<ffffffff8067872a>] tty_write+0x1a/0x30

In regs_get_kernel_stack_nth, regs->sp contains an arbitrary value.

arch_rethook_trampoline saves the registers from the probed function in a struct pt_regs. sp is not saved. Instead, sp is decremented for arch_rethook_trampoline's local stack.

Fix this crash and save the original sp along with the other registers. Use a0 as a temporary register, it is overwritten anyway.

[pjw@kernel.org: added Fixes tag; cc'ed stable]

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5 to before d21109fe4a55247094f913773a334772907cd016Affected
  • c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5 to before 5da5cf48a432e30ded8d58087854e5383a36eff1Affected
  • c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5 to before c386e1c591d72eab58ee2e69105c8cbc70928857Affected
  • c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5 to before 2faf0198168d2017cb528a79f76c560fda3b6e94Affected
  • c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5 to before 91b4d76dd07f1a1f20f73dfebb42ba04ac911a56Affected
  • c22b0bcb1dd024cb9caad9230e3a387d8b061df5 to before bc7b086a45521a986a49045907f017e3e46c763eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.12Affected
  • before 5.12Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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