Bug 2516665 (CVE-2026-72028) - CVE-2026-72028 kernel: riscv: probes: save original sp in rethook trampoline
Summary: CVE-2026-72028 kernel: riscv: probes: save original sp in rethook trampoline
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72028
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 16:45 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:24:44 UTC
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.

[pjw: added Fixes tag; cc'ed stable]


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