CVE-2021-47414 (Moderate severity, published 2024-05-20)
CVSS score: 4.7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CWE: CWE-399
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: Flush current cpu icache before other cpus

On SiFive Unmatched, I recently fell onto the following BUG when booting:

[    0.000000] ftrace: allocating 36610 entries in 144 pages
[    0.000000] Oops - illegal instruction [#1]
[    0.000000] Modules linked in:
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.13.1+ #5
[    0.000000] Hardware name: SiFive HiFive Unmatched A00 (DT)
[    0.000000] epc : riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask+0x6/0xae
[    0.000000]  ra : __sbi_rfence_v02+0xc8/0x10a
[    0.000000] epc : ffffffff80007240 ra : ffffffff80009964 sp : ffffffff81803e10
[    0.000000]  gp : ffffffff81a1ea70 tp : ffffffff8180f500 t0 : ffffffe07fe30000
[    0.000000]  t1 : 0000000000000004 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffff81803e60
[    0.000000]  s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : ffffffff81a22238 a1 : ffffffff81803e10
[    0.000000]  a2 : 0000000000000000 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000
[    0.000000]  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : ffffffff8000989c a7 : 0000000052464e43
[    0.000000]  s2 : ffffffff81a220c8 s3 : 0000000000000000 s4 : 0000000000000000
[    0.000000]  s5 : 0000000000000000 s6 : 0000000200000100 s7 : 0000000000000001
[    0.000000]  s8 : ffffffe07fe04040 s9 : ffffffff81a22c80 s10: 0000000000001000
[    0.000000]  s11: 0000000000000004 t3 : 0000000000000001 t4 : 0000000000000008
[    0.000000]  t5 : ffffffcf04000808 t6 : ffffffe3ffddf188
[    0.000000] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000002
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80007240>] riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask+0x6/0xae
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80009474>] sbi_remote_fence_i+0x1e/0x26
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8000b8f4>] flush_icache_all+0x12/0x1a
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8000666c>] patch_text_nosync+0x26/0x32
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8000884e>] ftrace_init_nop+0x52/0x8c
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff800f051e>] ftrace_process_locs.isra.0+0x29c/0x360
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a0e3c6>] ftrace_init+0x80/0x130
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a00f8c>] start_kernel+0x5c4/0x8f6
[    0.000000] ---[ end trace f67eb9af4d8d492b ]---
[    0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
[    0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---

While ftrace is looping over a list of addresses to patch, it always failed
when patching the same function: riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask. Looking at the
backtrace, the illegal instruction is encountered in this same function.
However, patch_text_nosync, after patching the instructions, calls
flush_icache_range. But looking at what happens in this function:

flush_icache_range -> flush_icache_all
                   -> sbi_remote_fence_i
                   -> __sbi_rfence_v02
                   -> riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask

The icache and dcache of the current cpu are never synchronized between the
patching of riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask and calling this same function.

So fix this by flushing the current cpu's icache before asking for the other
cpus to do the same.
Statement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not impacted by this CVE, as the vulnerability in question does not affect the specific versions or configurations of the Linux kernel used in its distributions. This ensures that users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not exposed to the potential risks associated with this issue, and no further action or mitigation is necessary for systems running this operating system.
Mitigation: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.