4.7

CVE-2022-49884

KVM: Initialize gfn_to_pfn_cache locks in dedicated helper

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

KVM: Initialize gfn_to_pfn_cache locks in dedicated helper

Move the gfn_to_pfn_cache lock initialization to another helper and
call the new helper during VM/vCPU creation.  There are race
conditions possible due to kvm_gfn_to_pfn_cache_init()'s
ability to re-initialize the cache's locks.

For example: a race between ioctl(KVM_XEN_HVM_EVTCHN_SEND) and
kvm_gfn_to_pfn_cache_init() leads to a corrupted shinfo gpc lock.

                (thread 1)                |           (thread 2)
                                          |
 kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast                  |
  read_lock_irqsave(&gpc->lock, ...)      |
                                          | kvm_gfn_to_pfn_cache_init
                                          |  rwlock_init(&gpc->lock)
  read_unlock_irqrestore(&gpc->lock, ...) |

Rename "cache_init" and "cache_destroy" to activate+deactivate to
avoid implying that the cache really is destroyed/freed.

Note, there more races in the newly named kvm_gpc_activate() that will
be addressed separately.

[sean: call out that this is a bug fix]
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.12% 0.021
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 4.7 1 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61242001d6c9c253df7645dab090842d8da08764
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52491a38b2c2411f3f0229dc6ad610349c704a41
Patch