ACK: [SRU Jammy,Lunar 0/6] CVE-2023-4155

Roxana Nicolescu roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com
Wed Aug 30 08:21:18 UTC 2023


On 30/08/2023 01:41, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> A SEV-ES may attack the host with a TOCTOU attack, leading to a recursion.
>
> [Backport]
> The end result on 5.15 is very similar to the end result in 6.2.
> 6.1 already has the fixes.
> Backports only touch SVM code.
>
> [Potential regression]
> Hosts running SEV-ES guests will be impacted.
>
> Paolo Bonzini (2):
>    KVM: SEV: snapshot the GHCB before accessing it
>    KVM: SEV: only access GHCB fields once
>
> Peter Gonda (1):
>    KVM: SEV: Refactor out sev_es_state struct
>
> Sean Christopherson (2):
>    KVM: SEV: Fall back to vmalloc for SEV-ES scratch area if necessary
>    KVM: SVM: Exit to userspace on ENOMEM/EFAULT GHCB errors
>
> Tom Lendacky (1):
>    KVM: SVM: Do not terminate SEV-ES guests on GHCB validation failure
>
>   arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h |  11 ++
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c            | 248 +++++++++++++++++-------------
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c            |   8 +-
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h            |  52 +++++--
>   4 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Roxana Nicolescu <roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com>



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