CVE-2026-64214

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

powerpc/time: Remove redundant preemptdisable|enable() calls from archirqworkraise()

A kernel panic is observed when handling machine check exceptions from real mode.

BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0xc00000006be21300 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] MSR: 8000000000001003 <SF,ME,RI,LE> CR: 88222248 XER: 00000005 CFAR: c00000000003ffc4 DAR: c00000006be21300 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 NIP [c000000000029e40] archirqworkraise+0x10/0x70 LR [c00000000003ffc8] machinecheckqueueevent+0xa8/0x150 Call Trace: [c0000000179d3c70] [c00000000003ff64] machinecheckqueueevent+0x44/0x150 [c0000000179d3d30] [c0000000000084e0] machinecheckearlycommon+0x1f0/0x2c0

The crash occurs because archirqworkraise() calls preemptdisable() from machine check exception (MCE) handlers running in real mode. In this context, accessing the preempt_count can fault, leading to the panic.

The preemptdisable()/preemptenable() pair in archirqworkraise() was originally added by commit 0fe1ac48bef0 ("powerpc/perfevent: Fix oops due to perfeventdo_pending call") to avoid races while raising irq work from exception context.

Later, commit 471ba0e686cb ("irqwork: Do not raise an IPI when queueing work on the local CPU") added preemption protection in irqworkqueue() path, while commit 20b876918c06 ("irqwork: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics") added equivalent protection in irqworkqueueon() before reaching archirqworkraise():

irqworkqueue() / irqworkqueueon() -> preemptdisable() -> __irqworkqueuelocal() -> irqworkraise() -> archirqworkraise()

As a result, callers other than mceirqworkraise() already execute with preemption disabled, making the additional preemptdisable()/preemptenable() pair in archirqworkraise() redundant.

The archirqworkraise() function executes in NMI context when called from MCE handler. Hence we will not be preempted or scheduled out since we are in NMI context with MSR[EE]=0. Therefore, it is safe to remove the preemptdisable()/preempt_enable() calls from here.

Remove it to avoid accessing preempt_count from real mode context.

[Maddy: Fixed the commit title]