CVE-2021-47228 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/ioremap: Map EFI-reserved memory as encrypted for SEV

Some drivers require memory that is marked as EFI boot services data. In order for this memory to not be re-used by the kernel after ExitBootServices() efi_mem_reserve() is used to preserve it by inserting a new EFI memory descriptor and marking it with the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute.

Under SEV memory marked with the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute needs to be mapped encrypted by Linux otherwise the kernel might crash at boot like below:

EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 general protection fault probably for non-canonical address 0x3597688770a868b2: 0000 [1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 13 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.12.4-2-default 1 openSUSE Tumbleweed Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009) BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:efi_mokvar_entry_next […] Call Trace: efi_mokvar_sysfs_init ? efi_mokvar_table_init do_one_initcall ? __kmalloc kernel_init_freeable ? rest_init kernel_init ret_from_fork

Expand the __ioremap_check_other() function to additionally check for this other type of boot data reserved at runtime and indicate that it should be mapped encrypted for an SEV guest.

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Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/208bb686e7fa7fff16e8fa78ff0db34aa9acdbd7 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7a05aba39f733ec337c5b952e112dd2dc4fc404 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d651ee9c71bb12fc0c8eb2786b66cbe5aa3e43b