# CVE-2021-47368: enetc: Fix illegal access when reading affinity\_hint

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-05-21 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.1

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: enetc: Fix illegal access when reading affinity_hint irq_set_affinity_hit() stores a reference to the cpumask_t parameter in the irq descriptor, and that reference can be accessed later from irq_affinity_hint_proc_show(). Since the cpu_mask parameter passed to irq_set_affinity_hit() has only temporary storage (it's on the stack memory), later accesses to it are illegal. Thus reads from the corresponding procfs affinity_hint file can result in paging request oops. The issue is fixed by the get_cpu_mask() helper, which provides a permanent storage for the cpumask_t parameter.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c4c3052911b577920353a7646e4883d5da40c28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c3f1b741c6c2914ea120e3a5790d3e900152f7b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f329d9da2a5ae032fcde800a99b118124ed5270
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7237a494decfa17d0b9d0076e6cee3235719de90

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