5.5

CVE-2026-46063

x86/shstk: Prevent deadlock during shstk sigreturn

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

x86/shstk: Prevent deadlock during shstk sigreturn

During sigreturn the shadow stack signal frame is popped. The kernel does
this by reading the shadow stack using normal read accesses. When it can't
assume the memory is shadow stack, it takes extra steps to makes sure it is
reading actual shadow stack memory and not other normal readable memory. It
does this by holding the mmap read lock while doing the access and checking
the flags of the VMA.

Unfortunately that is not safe. If the read of the shadow stack sigframe
hits a page fault, the fault handler will try to recursively grab another
mmap read lock. This normally works ok, but if a writer on another CPU is
also waiting, the second read lock could fail and cause a deadlock.

Fix this by not holding mmap lock during the read access to userspace.

Instead use mmap_lock_speculate_...() to watch for changes between dropping
mmap lock and the userspace access. Retry if anything grabbed an mmap write
lock in between and could have changed the VMA.

These mmap_lock_speculate_...() helpers use mm::mm_lock_seq, which is only
available when PER_VMA_LOCK is configured. So make X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK
depend on it. On x86, PER_VMA_LOCK is a default configuration for SMP
kernels. So drop support for the other configs under the assumption that
the !SMP shadow stack user base does not exist.

Currently there is a check that skips the lookup work when the SSP can be
assumed to be on a shadow stack. While reorganizing the function, remove
the optimization to make the tricky code flows more common, such that
issues like this cannot escape detection for so long.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.6 < 6.6.140
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.88
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.27
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 7.0.4
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.09% 0.008
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-667 Improper Locking

The product does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2c2b044458cbf22da05264fa707308e8d4f86f9
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d042d69b417515959e49021fef008c9b04a99bd5
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f3374c990fb2adec06d20fd6d780927811c9aa0
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d29db827502067626062f5c74dd502d14ab15bc
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9874b2917b9fbc30956fee209d3c4aa47201c64e
Patch