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bpf, x86: Fix per-CPU address resolution into an extended register

Published Sep 11, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

bpf, x86: Fix per-CPU address resolution into an extended register

The destination of the per-CPU address MOV is encoded in ModRM.reg,
which is extended by REX.R, but the REX prefix is built with
add_1mod(), which sets REX.B. REX.B extends ModRM.rm and SIB.base, and
this instruction addresses memory as disp32 with no base, so the bit
has no effect at all and the high register bit is simply lost.

Every is_ereg() destination therefore resolves to the wrong register,
picking whichever one shares the low three bits:

R5 -> RAX R7 -> RBP R8 -> RSI R9 -> RDI

With BPF_REG_5, whose reg2hex is 0, the emitted

65 49 03 04 25 <off> add %gs:<off>,%rax

adds the per-CPU offset to RAX rather than R8. The destination keeps
the unadjusted address and RAX is clobbered, so the program goes on to
dereference a pointer that was never made per-CPU:

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000607e386a8894
RIP: bpf_prog_707837aafd2aa9ae_update_percpu_data+0x93/0xc9
Call Trace:
__bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp+0x2dc/0x7d0
__flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x1e9/0xc80
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

R5 is the mildest of the four, aliasing a scratch register and faulting
at the store. R7 aliases RBP and would corrupt the frame pointer, R8
and R9 alias the argument registers.

Use add_2mod() so the register goes through REX.R, matching how
add_2reg() places it in ModRM.reg and how emit_priv_frame_ptr()
hardcodes 0x4c for the same instruction with R9. Encodings for the
non-extended registers are unchanged.

Problem showed up when trying to resurrect BPF_GCC CI (selftests built
with BPF_GCC).

This has gone unnoticed because clang reloads the address into R1
before each per-CPU access, so the destination is never an extended
register. GCC keeps several per-CPU addresses live at once, and
test_progs-bpf_gcc panics the kernel in global_percpu_data/init, where
the address of a .percpu variable ends up in R5.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.10 6.12.109

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 7.2.6-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.111-1 —
Debian 12 linux-6.12 6.12.111-1~deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux 7.0.0-42.42 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-aws 7.0.0-1016.17 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure 7.0.0-1020.21 USN-9019-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 7.0.0-1019.19 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gcp 7.0.0-1016.18 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-gke 7.0.0-1010.11 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-ibm +1 7.0.0-1017.17 USN-8960-1, USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-nvidia +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-oracle 7.0.0-1015.16 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-raspi 7.0.0-1023.23 USN-9021-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-realtime 7.0.0-43.43.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS linux-riscv 7.0.0-42.42.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-7.0 7.0.0-1017.18~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-7.0 7.0.0-1019.19~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-7.0 7.0.0-1017.19~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-7.0 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1 USN-8959-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oracle-7.0 7.0.0-1016.18~24.04.1 USN-9020-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +29 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv-7.0 7.0.0-42.42.1~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-source 7.2.7-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11880-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.18.51-120.162 +1 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196, ALAS2023-2026-3187
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.12 +11 1:6.12.110-135.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3196
Amazon Linux 2023 perf6.18 +12 1:6.18.51-120.162.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3187

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-207.111.5.1.el10uek ELSA-2026-500374

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