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CVE-2021-47226

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

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CNA source text (English)

x86/fpu: Invalidate FPU state after a failed XRSTOR from a user buffer

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/fpu: Invalidate FPU state after a failed XRSTOR from a user buffer Both Intel and AMD consider it to be architecturally valid for XRSTOR to fail with #PF but nonetheless change the register state. The actual conditions under which this might occur are unclear [1], but it seems plausible that this might be triggered if one sibling thread unmaps a page and invalidates the shared TLB while another sibling thread is executing XRSTOR on the page in question. __fpu__restore_sig() can execute XRSTOR while the hardware registers are preserved on behalf of a different victim task (using the fpu_fpregs_owner_ctx mechanism), and, in theory, XRSTOR could fail but modify the registers. If this happens, then there is a window in which __fpu__restore_sig() could schedule out and the victim task could schedule back in without reloading its own FPU registers. This would result in part of the FPU state that __fpu__restore_sig() was attempting to load leaking into the victim task's user-visible state. Invalidate preserved FPU registers on XRSTOR failure to prevent this situation from corrupting any state. [1] Frequent readers of the errata lists might imagine "complex microarchitectural conditions".

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)
1d731e731c4cd7cbd3b1aa295f0932e7610da82faffectedgita7748e021b9fb7739e3cb88449296539de0b6817UnavailableNone listed
1d731e731c4cd7cbd3b1aa295f0932e7610da82faffectedgit002665dcba4bbec8c82f0aeb4bd3f44334ed2c14UnavailableNone listed
1d731e731c4cd7cbd3b1aa295f0932e7610da82faffectedgitd8778e393afa421f1f117471144f8ce6deb6953aUnavailableNone 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)
5.2affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.2UnavailableNone listed
5.10.46unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.10.*None listed
5.12.13unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.12.*None listed
5.13unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed