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HistoryMay 17, 2024 - 12:08 p.m.

CVE-2023-52659 x86/mm: Ensure input to pfn_to_kaddr() is treated as a 64-bit type

2024-05-1712:08:36
Linux
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linux kernel
x86/mm
pfn_to_kaddr
sev-snp
64-bit
macro
phys_addr_t

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.1%

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/mm: Ensure input to pfn_to_kaddr() is treated as a 64-bit type

On 64-bit platforms, the pfn_to_kaddr() macro requires that the input
value is 64 bits in order to ensure that valid address bits don’t get
lost when shifting that input by PAGE_SHIFT to calculate the physical
address to provide a virtual address for.

One such example is in pvalidate_pages() (used by SEV-SNP guests), where
the GFN in the struct used for page-state change requests is a 40-bit
bit-field, so attempts to pass this GFN field directly into
pfn_to_kaddr() ends up causing guest crashes when dealing with addresses
above the 1TB range due to the above.

Fix this issue with SEV-SNP guests, as well as any similar cases that
might cause issues in current/future code, by using an inline function,
instead of a macro, so that the input is implicitly cast to the
expected 64-bit input type prior to performing the shift operation.

While it might be argued that the issue is on the caller side, other
archs/macros have taken similar approaches to deal with instances like
this, such as ARM explicitly casting the input to phys_addr_t:

e48866647b48 (β€œARM: 8396/1: use phys_addr_t in pfn_to_kaddr()”)

A C inline function is even better though.

[ mingo: Refined the changelog some more & added __always_inline. ]

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.1%

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