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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49783"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:17.054Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:06:41.833Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
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-2022-49783"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49783.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49783"
title: "x86/fpu: Drop fpregs lock before inheriting FPU permissions"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nx86/fpu: Drop fpregs lock before inheriting FPU permissions\n\nMike Galbraith reported the following against an old fork of preempt-rt\nbut the same issue also applies to the current preempt-rt tree.\n\n   BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46\n   in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: systemd\n   preempt_count: 1, expected: 0\n   RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\n   Preemption disabled at:\n   fpu_clone\n   CPU: 6 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G            E       (unreleased)\n   Call Trace:\n    \u003cTASK\u003e\n    dump_stack_lvl\n    ? fpu_clone\n    __might_resched\n    rt_spin_lock\n    fpu_clone\n    ? copy_thread\n    ? copy_process\n    ? shmem_alloc_inode\n    ? kmem_cache_alloc\n    ? kernel_clone\n    ? __do_sys_clone\n    ? do_syscall_64\n    ? __x64_sys_rt_sigprocmask\n    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode\n    ? do_syscall_64\n    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode\n    ? do_syscall_64\n    ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode\n    ? do_syscall_64\n    ? exc_page_fault\n    ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe\n    \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nMike says:\n\n  The splat comes from fpu_inherit_perms() being called under fpregs_lock(),\n  and us reaching the spin_lock_irq() therein due to fpu_state_size_dynamic()\n  returning true despite static key __fpu_state_size_dynamic having never\n  been enabled.\n\nMike's assessment looks correct. fpregs_lock on a PREEMPT_RT kernel disables\npreemption so calling spin_lock_irq() in fpu_inherit_perms() is unsafe. This\nproblem exists since commit\n\n  9e798e9aa14c (\"x86/fpu: Prepare fpu_clone() for dynamically enabled features\").\n\nEven though the original bug report should not have enabled the paths at\nall, the bug still exists.\n\nfpregs_lock is necessary when editing the FPU registers or a task's FP\nstate but it is not necessary for fpu_inherit_perms(). The only write\nof any FP state in fpu_inherit_perms() is for the new child which is\nnot running yet and cannot context switch or be borrowed by a kernel\nthread yet. Hence, fpregs_lock is not protecting anything in the new\nchild until clone() completes and can be dropped earlier. The siglock\nstill needs to be acquired by fpu_inherit_perms() as the read of the\nparent's permissions has to be serialised.\n\n  [ bp: Cleanup splat. ]"
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