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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2021-47639

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 1:37:05 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

KVM: x86/mmu: Zap _all_ roots when unmapping gfn range in TDP MMU

Zap both valid and invalid roots when zapping/unmapping a gfn range, as
KVM must ensure it holds no references to the freed page after returning
from the unmap operation.  Most notably, the TDP MMU doesn't zap invalid
roots in mmu_notifier callbacks.  This leads to use-after-free and other
issues if the mmu_notifier runs to completion while an invalid root
zapper yields as KVM fails to honor the requirement that there must be
_no_ references to the page after the mmu_notifier returns.

The bug is most easily reproduced by hacking KVM to cause a collision
between set_nx_huge_pages() and kvm_mmu_notifier_release(), but the bug
exists between kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() and memslot
updates as well.  Invalidating a root ensures pages aren't accessible by
the guest, and KVM won't read or write page data itself, but KVM will
trigger e.g. kvm_set_pfn_dirty() when zapping SPTEs, and thus completing
a zap of an invalid root _after_ the mmu_notifier returns is fatal.

  WARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 1496 at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:173 [kvm]
  RIP: 0010:kvm_is_zone_device_pfn+0x96/0xa0 [kvm]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   kvm_set_pfn_dirty+0xa8/0xe0 [kvm]
   __handle_changed_spte+0x2ab/0x5e0 [kvm]
   __handle_changed_spte+0x2ab/0x5e0 [kvm]
   __handle_changed_spte+0x2ab/0x5e0 [kvm]
   zap_gfn_range+0x1f3/0x310 [kvm]
   kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_invalidated_roots+0x50/0x90 [kvm]
   kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast+0x177/0x1a0 [kvm]
   set_nx_huge_pages+0xb4/0x190 [kvm]
   param_attr_store+0x70/0x100
   module_attr_store+0x19/0x30
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x119/0x1b0
   new_sync_write+0x11c/0x1b0
   vfs_write+0x1cc/0x270
   ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
   do_syscall_64+0x38/0xc0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
   </TASK>
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c8a8da182d4333d9bbb9131d765145568c847b2
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8cf6f98ab1d16d5e607635a0c21c4231eb15367e
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af47248407c0c5ae52a752af1ab5ce5b0db91502
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d62007edf01f5c11f75d0f4b1e538fc52a5b1982