NAK [OEM-5.14/OEM-5.17] Re: [SRU][F/I/J/OEM-5.14/OEM-5.17][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2022-1789
Timo Aaltonen
tjaalton at ubuntu.com
Mon Jun 13 11:37:05 UTC 2022
Cengiz Can kirjoitti 2.6.2022 klo 18.05:
> [Impact]
>
> From https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-1789
>
> With shadow paging enabled, the INVPCID instruction results in a call
> to kvm_mmu_invpcid_gva. If INVPCID is executed with CR0.PG=0, the
> invlpg callback is not set and the result is a NULL pointer dereference.
>
> [Other Info]
>
> * mmu->root_hpa was moved to mmu->root.hpa in 5.18-rc1
> (commit b9e5603c2a3accbadfec570ac501a54431a6bdba) and the fix was done
> according to that change. While backporting, we had to modify the patch
> to use mmu->root_hpa. This might cause merge conflicts in the future.
>
> * Target file resides in arch/x86/kvm instead of arch/x86/kvm/mmu in
> older kernels.
>
> Paolo Bonzini (1):
> KVM: x86/mmu: fix NULL pointer dereference on guest INVPCID
>
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
oem-5.14 got this via stable backports from 5.15.44
oem-5.17 will get this via hwe-5.17
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t
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