CVE-2024-26990 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: x86/mmu: Write-protect L2 SPTEs in TDP MMU when clearing dirty status

Check kvm_mmu_page_ad_need_write_protect() when deciding whether to write-protect or clear D-bits on TDP MMU SPTEs so that the TDP MMU accounts for any role-specific reasons for disabling D-bit dirty logging.

Specifically TDP MMU SPTEs must be write-protected when the TDP MMU is being used to run an L2 (i.e. L1 has disabled EPT) and PML is enabled. KVM always disables PML when running L2 even when L1 and L2 GPAs are in the some domain so failing to write-protect TDP MMU SPTEs will cause writes made by L2 to not be reflected in the dirty log.

[sean: massage shortlog and changelog tweak ternary op formatting]

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cdf811a937471af2d1facdf8ae80e5e68096f1ed https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e20bff0f1b2de9cfe303dd35ff46470104a87404 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2673dfb591a359c75080dd5af3da484b89320d22 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4EZ6PJW7VOZ224TD7N4JZNU6KV32ZJ53/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GCBZZEC7L7KTWWAS2NLJK6SO3IZIL4WW/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAMSOZXJEPUOXW33WZYWCVAY7Z5S7OOY/