CVE-2024-35980CWE-191

CVE-2024-35980

High · published May 20, 2024

CVSS v3.1
8.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

arm64: tlb: Fix TLBI RANGE operand

KVM/arm64 relies on TLBI RANGE feature to flush TLBs when the dirty

pages are collected by VMM and the page table entries become write

protected during live migration. Unfortunately, the operand passed

to the TLBI RANGE instruction isn't correctly sorted out due to the

commit 117940aa6e5f ("KVM: arm64: Define kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range()").

It leads to crash on the destination VM after live migration because

TLBs aren't flushed completely and some of the dirty pages are missed.

For example, I have a VM where 8GB memory is assigned, starting from

0x40000000 (1GB). Note that the host has 4KB as the base page size.

In the middile of migration, kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range() is executed

to flush TLBs. It passes MAX_TLBI_RANGE_PAGES as the argument to

__kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range() and __flush_s2_tlb_range_op(). SCALE#3

and NUM#31, corresponding to MAX_TLBI_RANGE_PAGES, isn't supported

by __TLBI_RANGE_NUM(). In this specific case, -1 has been returned

from __TLBI_RANGE_NUM() for SCALE#3/2/1/0 and rejected by the loop

in the __flush_tlb_range_op() until the variable @scale underflows

and becomes -9, 0xffff708000040000 is set as the operand. The operand

is wrong since it's sorted out by __TLBI_VADDR_RANGE() according to

invalid @scale and @num.

Fix it by extending __TLBI_RANGE_NUM() to support the combination of

SCALE#3 and NUM#31. With the changes, [-1 31] instead of [-1 30] can

be returned from the macro, meaning the TLBs for 0x200000 pages in the

above example can be flushed in one shoot with SCALE#3 and NUM#31. The

macro TLBI_RANGE_MASK is dropped since no one uses it any more. The

comments are also adjusted accordingly.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00228 · 12.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-191 · Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
Published
2024-05-20T14:15Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.6, < 6.6.296.6.29
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.8.76.8.7
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (6)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAY 09:42Z
    arm64: tlb: Fix TLBI RANGE operand
    cvelistv5