linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-46928: parisc: Clear stale IIR value on instruction access rights trap

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:48:49 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-46928: parisc: Clear stale IIR value on instruction access rights trap

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.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-46928 to this issue.

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

	Fixed in 5.10.90 with commit d01e9ce1af61
	Fixed in 5.15.13 with commit e96373f0a5f4
	Fixed in 5.16 with commit 484730e5862f

Please see https://www.kernel.org or 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-2021-46928
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/parisc/kernel/traps.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/d01e9ce1af6116f812491d3d3873d204f10ae0b8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e96373f0a5f484bc1e193f9951dcb3adf24bf3f7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/484730e5862f6b872dca13840bed40fd7c60fa26