CVE-2021-47640

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/kasan: Fix early region not updated correctly

The shadow's page table is not updated when PTE_RPN_SHIFT is 24 and PAGE_SHIFT is 12. It not only causes false positives but also false negative as shown the following text.

Fix it by bringing the logic of kasan_early_shadow_page_entry here.

1. False Positive: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in pcpu_alloc+0x508/0xa50 Write of size 16 at addr f57f3be0 by task swapper/0/1

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.15.0-12267-gdebe436e77c7 #1 Call Trace: [c80d1c20] [c07fe7b8] dump_stack_lvl+0x4c/0x6c (unreliable) [c80d1c40] [c02ff668] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x88/0x300 [c80d1c70] [c02ff45c] kasan_report+0x1ec/0x200 [c80d1cb0] [c0300b20] kasan_check_range+0x160/0x2f0 [c80d1cc0] [c03018a4] memset+0x34/0x90 [c80d1ce0] [c0280108] pcpu_alloc+0x508/0xa50 [c80d1d40] [c02fd7bc] __kmem_cache_create+0xfc/0x570 [c80d1d70] [c0283d64] kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x274/0x3e0 [c80d1db0] [c2036580] init_sd+0xc4/0x1d0 [c80d1de0] [c00044a0] do_one_initcall+0xc0/0x33c [c80d1eb0] [c2001624] kernel_init_freeable+0x2c8/0x384 [c80d1ef0] [c0004b14] kernel_init+0x24/0x170 [c80d1f10] [c001b26c] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64

Memory state around the buggy address: f57f3a80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f57f3b00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 >f57f3b80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ^ f57f3c00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f57f3c80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 ==================================================================

2. False Negative (with KASAN tests): ================================================================== Before fix: ok 45 - kmalloc_double_kzfree # vmalloc_oob: EXPECTATION FAILED at lib/test_kasan.c:1039 KASAN failure expected in "((volatile char *)area)[3100]", but none occurred not ok 46 - vmalloc_oob not ok 1 - kasan

================================================================== After fix: ok 1 - kasan

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Feb 26, 2025
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2021-47640: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix