In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug()
It was reported that a bug on arm64 caused a bad ip address to be used for
updating into a nop in ftrace_init(), but the error path (rightfully)
returned -EINVAL and not -EFAULT, as the bug caused more than one error to
occur. But because -EINVAL was returned, the ftrace_bug() tried to report
what was at the location of the ip address, and read it directly. This
caused the machine to panic, as the ip was not pointing to a valid memory
address.
Instead, read the ip address with copy_from_kernel_nofault() to safely
access the memory, and if it faults, report that the address faulted,
otherwise report what was in that location.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-05-21T14:20:04.023Z
Updated: 2024-12-19T07:38:45.013Z
Reserved: 2024-05-21T13:27:52.128Z
Link: CVE-2021-47276

Updated: 2024-08-04T05:32:07.996Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2024-05-21T15:15:15.983
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:35:46.860
Link: CVE-2021-47276
