CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72028
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-08-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: probes: save original sp in rethook trampoline
Reading a word from the stack in a kretprobe crashes a risc-v kernel.
$ cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
$ echo 'r n_tty_write $stack0' > dynamic_events
$ echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000200000128
...
[<ffffffff80016d16>] regs_get_kernel_stack_nth+0x26/0x38
[<ffffffff80177196>] process_fetch_insn+0x3ee/0x760
[<ffffffff80177836>] kretprobe_trace_func+0x116/0x1f0
[<ffffffff8017795a>] kretprobe_dispatcher+0x4a/0x58
[<ffffffff8013572e>] kretprobe_rethook_handler+0x5e/0x90
[<ffffffff80180838>] rethook_trampoline_handler+0x70/0x108
[<ffffffff8001ba32>] arch_rethook_trampoline_callback+0x12/0x1c
[<ffffffff8001ba84>] arch_rethook_trampoline+0x48/0x94
[<ffffffff8067872a>] tty_write+0x1a/0x30
In regs_get_kernel_stack_nth, regs->sp contains an arbitrary value.
arch_rethook_trampoline saves the registers from the probed function in a
struct pt_regs. sp is not saved. Instead, sp is decremented for
arch_rethook_trampoline's local stack.
Fix this crash and save the original sp along with the other registers.
Use a0 as a temporary register, it is overwritten anyway.
[[email protected]: added Fixes tag; cc'ed stable]
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2faf0198168d2017cb528a79f76c560fda3b6e94 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5da5cf48a432e30ded8d58087854e5383a36eff1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91b4d76dd07f1a1f20f73dfebb42ba04ac911a56 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc7b086a45521a986a49045907f017e3e46c763e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c386e1c591d72eab58ee2e69105c8cbc70928857 git.kernel.org