Bug 2373498 (CVE-2022-50224) - CVE-2022-50224 kernel: KVM: x86/mmu: Treat NX as a valid SPTE bit for NPT
Summary: CVE-2022-50224 kernel: KVM: x86/mmu: Treat NX as a valid SPTE bit for NPT
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50224
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-19 22:14 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:05:40 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: x86/mmu: Treat NX as a valid SPTE bit for NPT

Treat the NX bit as valid when using NPT, as KVM will set the NX bit when
the NX huge page mitigation is enabled (mindblowing) and trigger the WARN
that fires on reserved SPTE bits being set.

KVM has required NX support for SVM since commit b26a71a1a5b9 ("KVM: SVM:
Refuse to load kvm_amd if NX support is not available") for exactly this
reason, but apparently it never occurred to anyone to actually test NPT
with the mitigation enabled.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  spte = 0x800000018a600ee7, level = 2, rsvd bits = 0x800f0000001fe000
  WARNING: CPU: 152 PID: 15966 at arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c:215 make_spte+0x327/0x340 [kvm]
  Hardware name: Google, Inc. Arcadia_IT_80/Arcadia_IT_80, BIOS 10.48.0 01/27/2022
  RIP: 0010:make_spte+0x327/0x340 [kvm]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   tdp_mmu_map_handle_target_level+0xc3/0x230 [kvm]
   kvm_tdp_mmu_map+0x343/0x3b0 [kvm]
   direct_page_fault+0x1ae/0x2a0 [kvm]
   kvm_tdp_page_fault+0x7d/0x90 [kvm]
   kvm_mmu_page_fault+0xfb/0x2e0 [kvm]
   npf_interception+0x55/0x90 [kvm_amd]
   svm_invoke_exit_handler+0x31/0xf0 [kvm_amd]
   svm_handle_exit+0xf6/0x1d0 [kvm_amd]
   vcpu_enter_guest+0xb6d/0xee0 [kvm]
   ? kvm_pmu_trigger_event+0x6d/0x230 [kvm]
   vcpu_run+0x65/0x2c0 [kvm]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x355/0x610 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x551/0x610 [kvm]
   __se_sys_ioctl+0x77/0xc0
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1d/0x20
   do_syscall_64+0x44/0xa0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 22:04:44 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061848-CVE-2022-50224-7549@gregkh/T


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