CVE-2021-47429
Published: May 21, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/64s: Fix unrecoverable MCE calling async handler from NMI The machine check handler is not considered NMI on 64s. The early handler is the true NMI handler, and then it schedules the machine_check_exception handler to run when interrupts are enabled. This works fine except the case of an unrecoverable MCE, where the true NMI is taken when MSR[RI] is clear, it can not recover, so it calls machine_check_exception directly so something might be done about it. Calling an async handler from NMI context can result in irq state and other things getting corrupted. This can also trigger the BUG at arch/powerpc/include/asm/interrupt.h:168 BUG_ON(!arch_irq_disabled_regs(regs) && !(regs->msr & MSR_EE)); Fix this by making an _async version of the handler which is called in the normal case, and a NMI version that is called for unrecoverable interrupts.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 2b43dd7653cca47d297756980846ebbfe8887fa1 - < d7a8e38999fbd6910516e44cb43f9f4317e54f73affected 2b43dd7653cca47d297756980846ebbfe8887fa1 - < f08fb25bc66986b0952724530a640d9970fa52c1 |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.14unaffected 0 - < 5.14unaffected 5.14.12 - <= 5.14.*unaffected 5.15 - <= * |
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