CVE-2022-49884

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 caches 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]

Affected Software

References

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