Security Advisory

CVE-2021-46974

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-02-27 18:47:08
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:18:49
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix masking negation logic upon negative dst register The negation logic for the case where the off_reg is sitting in the dst register is not correct given then we cannot just invert the add to a sub or vice versa. As a fix, perform the final bitwise and-op unconditionally into AX from the off_reg, then move the pointer from the src to dst and finally use AX as the source for the original pointer arithmetic operation such that the inversion yields a correct result. The single non-AX mov in between is possible given constant blinding is retaining it as its not an immediate based operation.