CVE-2022-49172

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When these occur, the cache line is\nnot invalidated and potentially we get memory corruption. The\nproblem was hidden by the nullification of the flush instructions.\n\nThese faults also affect performance. With pa8800/pa8900 processors,\nthere will be 32 faults per 4 KB page since the cache line is 128\nbytes. There will be more faults with earlier processors.\n\nThe problem is fixed by using flush_cache_pages(). It does the flush\nusing a tmp alias mapping.\n\nThe flush_cache_pages() call in flush_cache_range() flushed too\nlarge a range.\n\nV2: Remove unnecessary preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() calls."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: parisc: Se corrigen los fallos de vaciado de cach\u00e9 TLB de datos sin acceso Cuando una p\u00e1gina no est\u00e1 presente, obtenemos fallos de TLB de datos sin acceso de las instrucciones fdc y fic en flush_user_dcache_range_asm y flush_user_icache_range_asm. Cuando esto ocurre, la l\u00ednea de cach\u00e9 no se invalida y potencialmente obtenemos corrupci\u00f3n de memoria. El problema estaba oculto por la anulaci\u00f3n de las instrucciones de vaciado. Estos fallos tambi\u00e9n afectan el rendimiento. Con los procesadores pa8800/pa8900, habr\u00e1 32 fallos por p\u00e1gina de 4 KB ya que la l\u00ednea de cach\u00e9 es de 128 bytes. Habr\u00e1 m\u00e1s fallos con procesadores anteriores. El problema se soluciona utilizando flush_cache_pages(). Realiza el vaciado utilizando una asignaci\u00f3n de alias tmp. La llamada flush_cache_pages() en flush_cache_range() vaci\u00f3 un rango demasiado grande. 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{"created": "2025-07-13T21:08:02.296252+00:00", "updated": "2025-07-13T21:08:02.296304+00:00", "vendors": ["linux", "linux$PRODUCT$linux_kernel"]}