CVE-2026-90339

powerpc/syscall: Fix syscall skip handling for seccomp and ptrace

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

powerpc/syscall: Fix syscall skip handling for seccomp and ptrace

After enabling GENERIC_ENTRY on PowerPC, syscall_enter_from_user_mode() returns -1 as a sentinel to signal that seccomp or ptrace has intercepted the syscall and already set a return value via syscall_set_return_value(). system_call_exception() was not handling this sentinel, and since -1UL is >= NR_syscalls, the code fell into the out-of-range path and returned -ENOSYS, overwriting the errno already placed in regs->gpr[3].

The naive fix of checking r0 == -1L before the NR_syscalls bounds check is ambiguous: a user legitimately calling syscall(-1) also produces r0 == -1L, and a tracer intercepting such a call would have its injected return value silently discarded.

Fix this by introducing a thread flag that is set whenever syscall_set_return_value() explicitly updates the return value. In system_call_exception(), check and clear this flag before dispatching the syscall, and return the preset value directly when it is present. This ensures that an explicitly supplied return value always suppresses syscall execution, regardless of the syscall number.

This handles all seccomp actions correctly:

- SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO, SECCOMP_RET_TRACE (no tracer), SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF: all call syscall_set_return_value(), flag is set, injected value returned. - SECCOMP_RET_TRAP, SECCOMP_RET_KILL: call syscall_rollback() and deliver a signal; flag is not set, but the process is dying so the return value is irrelevant.

The fix covers both ppc32 and ppc64 with no #ifdefs.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • bee25f97ad24641df55cb3887eb5bfcb2b9d8fbc to before 19b54740e2e1102c7d48553d9e0347c1f6af22b0Affected
  • bee25f97ad24641df55cb3887eb5bfcb2b9d8fbc to before 69cb2be898be6d5826cacd1a628f6945a24480b6Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.2Affected
  • before 7.2Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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