UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-99016
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: futex: untag the user pointer before the atomic access access_ok() checks untagged_
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: futex: untag the user pointer before the atomic access
access_ok() checks untagged_addr(uaddr), but arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()
and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() hand the raw uaddr to the inline asm
amoswap/amoadd/.../lr.w+sc.w through the "+m" (*uaddr) operand. When the
tagged address ABI is enabled (CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_SUPM, prctl
PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL with PMLEN != 0), those two addresses differ: a
user pointer whose top PMLEN bits hold a tag passes access_ok() after
untagging, but the atomic is then performed on the still-tagged raw
address.
Supervisor-mode data accesses are not subject to the U-mode pointer
masking (that is governed by menvcfg.PMM, which the kernel does not set),
so hardware does not strip the tag for the kernel's own access. With
Sv57 and PMLEN=16 the tag bits overlap the canonical-address bits, so a
tagged pointer can name a canonical kernel virtual address (e.g. in the
linear map) whose untagged form is a valid user address. An unprivileged
process can thus make FUTEX_WAKE_OP perform an atomic read-modify-write on
an arbitrary kernel address, with the matching FUTEX_OP_CMP_* result
serving as a read oracle.
get_user()/put_user()/raw_copy_{to,from}_user() already untag the pointer
after the access_ok() check; do the same in the futex helpers so the
atomic operates on the address that was actually validated.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e5c80bbc062a8dda33e687ebf7be8f074ee4f7d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/405290be962b32eec842776fbe3bdf81f15b1676
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e48d8d51ab37b7decfbff3e2844e027a52ad6ea
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-10-23 via NVD.
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