CVE-2024-26691 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: Fix circular locking dependency

The rule inside kvm enforces that the vcpu->mutex is taken inside kvm->lock. The rule is violated by the pkvm_create_hyp_vm() which acquires the kvm->lock while already holding the vcpu->mutex lock from kvm_vcpu_ioctl(). Avoid the circular locking dependency altogether by protecting the hyp vm handle with the config_lock much like we already do for other forms of VM-scoped data.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d16cebf01127f459dcfeb79ed77bd68b124c228 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ab1c40a1e915e350d9181a4603af393141970cc https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10c02aad111df02088d1a81792a709f6a7eca6cc