CVE-2021-47230

KVM: x86: Immediately reset the MMU context when the SMM flag is cleared

Medium · published May 21, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

KVM: x86: Immediately reset the MMU context when the SMM flag is cleared

Immediately reset the MMU context when the vCPU's SMM flag is cleared so

that the SMM flag in the MMU role is always synchronized with the vCPU's

flag. If RSM fails (which isn't correctly emulated), KVM will bail

without calling post_leave_smm() and leave the MMU in a bad state.

The bad MMU role can lead to a NULL pointer dereference when grabbing a

shadow page's rmap for a page fault as the initial lookups for the gfn

will happen with the vCPU's SMM flag (=0), whereas the rmap lookup will

use the shadow page's SMM flag, which comes from the MMU (=1). SMM has

an entirely different set of memslots, and so the initial lookup can find

a memslot (SMM=0) and then explode on the rmap memslot lookup (SMM=1).

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]

CPU: 1 PID: 8410 Comm: syz-executor382 Not tainted 5.13.0-rc5-syzkaller #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011

RIP: 0010:__gfn_to_rmap arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:935 [inline]

RIP: 0010:gfn_to_rmap+0x2b0/0x4d0 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:947

Code: <42> 80 3c 20 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 f1 79 a9 00 4c 89 fb 4d 8b 37 44

RSP: 0018:ffffc90000ffef98 EFLAGS: 00010246

RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888015b9f414 RCX: ffff888019669c40

RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000001

RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffffffff811d9cdb R09: ffffed10065a6002

R10: ffffed10065a6002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: dffffc0000000000

R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000

FS: 000000000124b300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000028e31000 CR4: 00000000001526e0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

rmap_add arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:965 [inline]

mmu_set_spte+0x862/0xe60 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:2604

__direct_map arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:2862 [inline]

direct_page_fault+0x1f74/0x2b70 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:3769

kvm_mmu_do_page_fault arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h:124 [inline]

kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x199/0x1440 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c:5065

vmx_handle_exit+0x26/0x160 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6122

vcpu_enter_guest+0x3bdd/0x9630 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:9428

vcpu_run+0x416/0xc20 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:9494

kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x4e8/0xa40 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:9722

kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x70f/0xbb0 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3460

vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]

__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:1069 [inline]

__se_sys_ioctl+0xfb/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:1055

do_syscall_64+0x3f/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

RIP: 0033:0x440ce9

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00232 · 13.3th percentile
Published
2024-05-21T14:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
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