linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-47262: KVM: x86: Ensure liveliness of nested VM-Enter fail tracepoint message

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Message-ID: <2024052148-CVE-2021-47262-cf6a@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 16:20:16 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-47262: KVM: x86: Ensure liveliness of nested VM-Enter fail tracepoint message

Description
===========

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

KVM: x86: Ensure liveliness of nested VM-Enter fail tracepoint message

Use the __string() machinery provided by the tracing subystem to make a
copy of the string literals consumed by the "nested VM-Enter failed"
tracepoint.  A complete copy is necessary to ensure that the tracepoint
can't outlive the data/memory it consumes and deference stale memory.

Because the tracepoint itself is defined by kvm, if kvm-intel and/or
kvm-amd are built as modules, the memory holding the string literals
defined by the vendor modules will be freed when the module is unloaded,
whereas the tracepoint and its data in the ring buffer will live until
kvm is unloaded (or "indefinitely" if kvm is built-in).

This bug has existed since the tracepoint was added, but was recently
exposed by a new check in tracing to detect exactly this type of bug.

  fmt: '%s%s
  ' current_buffer: ' vmx_dirty_log_t-140127  [003] ....  kvm_nested_vmenter_failed: '
  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 140134 at kernel/trace/trace.c:3759 trace_check_vprintf+0x3be/0x3e0
  CPU: 3 PID: 140134 Comm: less Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1-ce2e73ce600a-req #184
  Hardware name: ASUS Q87M-E/Q87M-E, BIOS 1102 03/03/2014
  RIP: 0010:trace_check_vprintf+0x3be/0x3e0
  Code: <0f> 0b 44 8b 4c 24 1c e9 a9 fe ff ff c6 44 02 ff 00 49 8b 97 b0 20
  RSP: 0018:ffffa895cc37bcb0 EFLAGS: 00010282
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa895cc37bd08 RCX: 0000000000000027
  RDX: 0000000000000027 RSI: 00000000ffffdfff RDI: ffff9766cfad74f8
  RBP: ffffffffc0a041d4 R08: ffff9766cfad74f0 R09: ffffa895cc37bad8
  R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffc0a041d4
  R13: ffffffffc0f4dba8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff976409f2c000
  FS:  00007f92fa200740(0000) GS:ffff9766cfac0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000559bd11b0000 CR3: 000000019fbaa002 CR4: 00000000001726e0
  Call Trace:
   trace_event_printf+0x5e/0x80
   trace_raw_output_kvm_nested_vmenter_failed+0x3a/0x60 [kvm]
   print_trace_line+0x1dd/0x4e0
   s_show+0x45/0x150
   seq_read_iter+0x2d5/0x4c0
   seq_read+0x106/0x150
   vfs_read+0x98/0x180
   ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
   do_syscall_64+0x40/0xb0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47262 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit 380e0055bc7e and fixed in 5.4.126 with commit 796d3bd4ac93
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit 380e0055bc7e and fixed in 5.10.44 with commit d046f724bbd7
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit 380e0055bc7e and fixed in 5.12.11 with commit 9fb088ce13bc
	Issue introduced in 5.4 with commit 380e0055bc7e and fixed in 5.13 with commit f31500b0d437

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2021-47262
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	arch/x86/kvm/trace.h


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/796d3bd4ac9316e70c181189318cd2bd98af34bc
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d046f724bbd725a24007b7e52b2d675249870888
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fb088ce13bc3c59a51260207b487db3e556f275
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f31500b0d437a2464ca5972d8f5439e156b74960