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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2021-47414" idYear: 2021 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:04:04.715Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T13:54:14.639Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:36.661Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47414" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47414.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47414" title: "riscv: Flush current cpu icache before other cpus" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: Flush current cpu icache before other cpus\n\nOn SiFive Unmatched, I recently fell onto the following BUG when booting:\n\n[ 0.000000] ftrace: allocating 36610 entries in 144 pages\n[ 0.000000] Oops - illegal instruction [#1]\n[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:\n[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.13.1+ #5\n[ 0.000000] Hardware name: SiFive HiFive Unmatched A00 (DT)\n[ 0.000000] epc : riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask+0x6/0xae\n[ 0.000000] ra : __sbi_rfence_v02+0xc8/0x10a\n[ 0.000000] epc : ffffffff80007240 ra : ffffffff80009964 sp : ffffffff81803e10\n[ 0.000000] gp : ffffffff81a1ea70 tp : ffffffff8180f500 t0 : ffffffe07fe30000\n[ 0.000000] t1 : 0000000000000004 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffff81803e60\n[ 0.000000] s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : ffffffff81a22238 a1 : ffffffff81803e10\n[ 0.000000] a2 : 0000000000000000 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : ffffffff8000989c a7 : 0000000052464e43\n[ 0.000000] s2 : ffffffff81a220c8 s3 : 0000000000000000 s4 : 0000000000000000\n[ 0.000000] s5 : 0000000000000000 s6 : 0000000200000100 s7 : 0000000000000001\n[ 0.000000] s8 : ffffffe07fe04040 s9 : ffffffff81a22c80 s10: 0000000000001000\n[ 0.000000] s11: 0000000000000004 t3 : 0000000000000001 t4 : 0000000000000008\n[ 0.000000] t5 : ffffffcf04000808 t6 : ffffffe3ffddf188\n[ 0.000000] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000002\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80007240\u003e] riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask+0x6/0xae\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80009474\u003e] sbi_remote_fence_i+0x1e/0x26\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8000b8f4\u003e] flush_icache_all+0x12/0x1a\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8000666c\u003e] patch_text_nosync+0x26/0x32\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff8000884e\u003e] ftrace_init_nop+0x52/0x8c\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff800f051e\u003e] ftrace_process_locs.isra.0+0x29c/0x360\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80a0e3c6\u003e] ftrace_init+0x80/0x130\n[ 0.000000] [\u003cffffffff80a00f8c\u003e] start_kernel+0x5c4/0x8f6\n[ 0.000000] ---[ end trace f67eb9af4d8d492b ]---\n[ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!\n[ 0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---\n\nWhile ftrace is looping over a list of addresses to patch, it always failed\nwhen patching the same function: riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask. Looking at the\nbacktrace, the illegal instruction is encountered in this same function.\nHowever, patch_text_nosync, after patching the instructions, calls\nflush_icache_range. But looking at what happens in this function:\n\nflush_icache_range -\u003e flush_icache_all\n -\u003e sbi_remote_fence_i\n -\u003e __sbi_rfence_v02\n -\u003e riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask\n\nThe icache and dcache of the current cpu are never synchronized between the\npatching of riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask and calling this same function.\n\nSo fix this by flushing the current cpu's icache before asking for the other\ncpus to do the same." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fab957c11efe2f405e08b9f0d080524bc2631428","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"427faa29e06f0709476ea1bd59758f997ec8b64e"},{"version":"fab957c11efe2f405e08b9f0d080524bc2631428","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1c7aa87c423e765e3862349c2f095fdfccdd9b3"},{"version":"fab957c11efe2f405e08b9f0d080524bc2631428","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb8958d5dc79acbd071397abb57b8756375fe1ce"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"5.10.73","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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