CVE-2021-47226
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2021
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
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
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1d731e731c4cd7cbd3b1aa295f0932e7610da82f | affected | git | a7748e021b9fb7739e3cb88449296539de0b6817 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1d731e731c4cd7cbd3b1aa295f0932e7610da82f | affected | git | 002665dcba4bbec8c82f0aeb4bd3f44334ed2c14 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 1d731e731c4cd7cbd3b1aa295f0932e7610da82f | affected | git | d8778e393afa421f1f117471144f8ce6deb6953a | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.2 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.46 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.12.13 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.12.* | None listed |
| 5.13 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |