Bug 2337109 (CVE-2024-55881) - CVE-2024-55881 kernel: KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit()
Summary: CVE-2024-55881 kernel: KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-55881
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-01-11 13:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-01-13 07:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-01-11 13:02:15 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit()

Use is_64_bit_hypercall() instead of is_64_bit_mode() to detect a 64-bit
hypercall when completing said hypercall.  For guests with protected state,
e.g. SEV-ES and SEV-SNP, KVM must assume the hypercall was made in 64-bit
mode as the vCPU state needed to detect 64-bit mode is unavailable.

Hacking the sev_smoke_test selftest to generate a KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE
hypercall via VMGEXIT trips the WARN:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 273 PID: 326626 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.h:180 complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm]
  Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm ... [last unloaded: kvm]
  CPU: 273 UID: 0 PID: 326626 Comm: sev_smoke_test Not tainted 6.12.0-smp--392e932fa0f3-feat #470
  Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20240617.0-0 06/17/2024
  RIP: 0010:complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2400/0x2720 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x54f/0x630 [kvm]
   __se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0
   do_syscall_64+0x83/0x160
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-01-13 07:40:07 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025011145-CVE-2024-55881-ad68@gregkh/T


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