Vulnerability CVE-2024-40953
Published: 2024-07-12

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

KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin()

Use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() to access kvm->last_boosted_vcpu to ensure the
loads and stores are atomic. In the extremely unlikely scenario the
compiler tears the stores, it's theoretically possible for KVM to attempt
to get a vCPU using an out-of-bounds index, e.g. if the write is split
into multiple 8-bit stores, and is paired with a 32-bit load on a VM with
257 vCPUs:

CPU0 CPU1
last_boosted_vcpu = 0xff;

(last_boosted_vcpu = 0x100)
last_boosted_vcpu[15:8] = 0x01;
i = (last_boosted_vcpu = 0x1ff)
last_boosted_vcpu[7:0] = 0x00;

vcpu = kvm->vcpu_array[0x1ff];

As detected by KCSAN:

BUG: KCSAN: data-race in kvm_vcpu_on_spin [kvm] / kvm_vcpu_on_spin [kvm]

write to 0xffffc90025a92344 of 4 bytes by task 4340 on cpu 16:
kvm_vcpu_on_spin (arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4112) kvm
handle_pause (arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:5929) kvm_intel
vmx_handle_exit (arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:?
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6606) kvm_intel
vcpu_run (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11107 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11211) kvm
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:?) kvm
kvm_vcpu_ioctl (arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:?) kvm
__se_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:52 fs/ioctl.c:904 fs/ioctl.c:890)
__x64_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:890)
x64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)

read to 0xffffc90025a92344 of 4 bytes by task 4342 on cpu 4:
kvm_vcpu_on_spin (arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4069) kvm
handle_pause (arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:5929) kvm_intel
vmx_handle_exit (arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:?
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6606) kvm_intel
vcpu_run (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11107 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11211) kvm
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run (arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:?) kvm
kvm_vcpu_ioctl (arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:?) kvm
__se_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:52 fs/ioctl.c:904 fs/ioctl.c:890)
__x64_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:890)
x64_sys_call (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:33)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:?)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)

value changed: 0x00000012 -> 0x00000000

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92c77807d938145c7c3350c944ef9f39d7f6017c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a937ef951bba72f48d2402451419d725d70dba20
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95c8dd79f3a14df96b3820b35b8399bd91b2be60
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49f683b41f28918df3e51ddc0d928cb2e934ccdb
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