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CVE-2021-46990

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2021
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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powerpc/64s: Fix crashes when toggling entry flush barrier

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/64s: Fix crashes when toggling entry flush barrier The entry flush mitigation can be enabled/disabled at runtime via a debugfs file (entry_flush), which causes the kernel to patch itself to enable/disable the relevant mitigations. However depending on which mitigation we're using, it may not be safe to do that patching while other CPUs are active. For example the following crash: sleeper[15639]: segfault (11) at c000000000004c20 nip c000000000004c20 lr c000000000004c20 Shows that we returned to userspace with a corrupted LR that points into the kernel, due to executing the partially patched call to the fallback entry flush (ie. we missed the LR restore). Fix it by doing the patching under stop machine. The CPUs that aren't doing the patching will be spinning in the core of the stop machine logic. That is currently sufficient for our purposes, because none of the patching we do is to that code or anywhere in the vicinity.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4a1e90af718d1489ffcecc8f52486c4f5dc0f7a6affectedgit8382b15864e5014261b4f36c2aa89723612ee058UnavailableNone listed
fa4bf9f38184ed7ca4916eb64f8c767d1e279c1faffectedgit0c25a7bb697f2e6ee65b6d63782f675bf129511aUnavailableNone listed
db01cad9efe3c3838a6b3a3f68affd295c4b92d6affectedgitee4b7aab93c2631c3bb0753023c5dda592bb666bUnavailableNone listed
f69bb4e51f41973fb7594be1479fa689831efe1aaffectedgit2db22ba4e0e103f00e0512e0ecce36ac78c644f8UnavailableNone listed
b65458b6be8032c5179d4f562038575d7b3a6be3affectedgit0b4eb172cc12dc102cd0ad013e53ee4463db9508UnavailableNone listed
f79643787e0a0762d2409b7b8334e83f22d85695affectedgitd2e3590ca39ccfd8a5a46d8c7f095cb6c7b9ae92UnavailableNone listed
f79643787e0a0762d2409b7b8334e83f22d85695affectedgitdd0d6117052faace5440db20fc37175efe921c7dUnavailableNone listed
f79643787e0a0762d2409b7b8334e83f22d85695affectedgit5bc00fdda1e934c557351a9c751a205293e68cbfUnavailableNone listed
f79643787e0a0762d2409b7b8334e83f22d85695affectedgitaec86b052df6541cc97c5fca44e5934cbea4963bUnavailableNone listed
e590b36718d6e740b7b19514f710402a6499164caffectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
4.4.245affectedsemver4.4.269UnavailableNone listed
4.9.245affectedsemver4.9.269UnavailableNone listed
4.14.208affectedsemver4.14.233UnavailableNone listed
4.19.159affectedsemver4.19.191UnavailableNone listed
5.4.79affectedsemver5.4.120UnavailableNone listed
5.9.10affectedsemver5.10UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
5.10affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.10UnavailableNone listed
4.4.269unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.4.*None listed
4.9.269unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.9.*None listed
4.14.233unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.14.*None listed
4.19.191unaffectedsemverUnavailable4.19.*None listed
5.4.120unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.4.*None listed
5.10.38unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.11.22unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.11.*None listed
5.12.5unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.12.*None listed
5.13unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed