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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-47465"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-22T06:23:25.027Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:47:58.408Z"
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-2021-47465"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-47465.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47465"
title: "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix stack handling in idle_kvm_start_guest()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix stack handling in idle_kvm_start_guest()\n\nIn commit 10d91611f426 (\"powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in\nC\") kvm_start_guest() became idle_kvm_start_guest(). The old code\nallocated a stack frame on the emergency stack, but didn't use the\nframe to store anything, and also didn't store anything in its caller's\nframe.\n\nidle_kvm_start_guest() on the other hand is written more like a normal C\nfunction, it creates a frame on entry, and also stores CR/LR into its\ncallers frame (per the ABI). The problem is that there is no caller\nframe on the emergency stack.\n\nThe emergency stack for a given CPU is allocated with:\n\n  paca_ptrs[i]-\u003eemergency_sp = alloc_stack(limit, i) + THREAD_SIZE;\n\nSo emergency_sp actually points to the first address above the emergency\nstack allocation for a given CPU, we must not store above it without\nfirst decrementing it to create a frame. This is different to the\nregular kernel stack, paca-\u003ekstack, which is initialised to point at an\ninitial frame that is ready to use.\n\nidle_kvm_start_guest() stores the backchain, CR and LR all of which\nwrite outside the allocation for the emergency stack. It then creates a\nstack frame and saves the non-volatile registers. Unfortunately the\nframe it creates is not large enough to fit the non-volatiles, and so\nthe saving of the non-volatile registers also writes outside the\nemergency stack allocation.\n\nThe end result is that we corrupt whatever is at 0-24 bytes, and 112-248\nbytes above the emergency stack allocation.\n\nIn practice this has gone unnoticed because the memory immediately above\nthe emergency stack happens to be used for other stack allocations,\neither another CPUs mc_emergency_sp or an IRQ stack. See the order of\ncalls to irqstack_early_init() and emergency_stack_init().\n\nThe low addresses of another stack are the top of that stack, and so are\nonly used if that stack is under extreme pressue, which essentially\nnever happens in practice - and if it did there's a high likelyhood we'd\ncrash due to that stack overflowing.\n\nStill, we shouldn't be corrupting someone else's stack, and it is purely\nluck that we aren't corrupting something else.\n\nTo fix it we save CR/LR into the caller's frame using the existing r1 on\nentry, we then create a SWITCH_FRAME_SIZE frame (which has space for\npt_regs) on the emergency stack with the backchain pointing to the\nexisting stack, and then finally we switch to the new frame on the\nemergency stack."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"10d91611f426d4bafd2a83d966c36da811b2f7ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80bbb0bc3a0288442f7fe6fc514f4ee1cb06ccb7"},{"version":"10d91611f426d4bafd2a83d966c36da811b2f7ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbd724c49bead048ae9fc1a5b7bff2fb3e54f855"},{"version":"10d91611f426d4bafd2a83d966c36da811b2f7ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d077c37c4643394b1bae9682da48164fc147ea8"},{"version":"10d91611f426d4bafd2a83d966c36da811b2f7ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b4416c5095c20e110c82ae602c254099b83b72f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"5.4.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.76","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.14.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*"},{"version":"5.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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