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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: libo.chen.cn@windriver.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Leak pages if set_memory_encrypted() fails
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 15:34:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024100950-pointing-booted-5e77@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241009061950.2802693-1-libo.chen.cn@windriver.com>

On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 02:19:50PM +0800, libo.chen.cn@windriver.com wrote:
> From: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
> 
> commit 03f5a999adba ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Leak pages if set_memory_encrypted() fails")
> 
> In CoCo VMs it is possible for the untrusted host to cause
> set_memory_encrypted() or set_memory_decrypted() to fail such that an
> error is returned and the resulting memory is shared. Callers need to
> take care to handle these errors to avoid returning decrypted (shared)
> memory to the page allocator, which could lead to functional or security
> issues.
> 
> VMBus code could free decrypted pages if set_memory_encrypted()/decrypted()
> fails. Leak the pages if this happens.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240311161558.1310-2-mhklinux@outlook.com
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
> Message-ID: <20240311161558.1310-2-mhklinux@outlook.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> 
> CVE-2024-36913
> Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen.cn@windriver.com>
> ---
> This commit is backporting 03f5a999adba to the branch linux-5.15.y to 
> solve the CVE-2024-36913. Please merge this commit to linux-5.15.y.

As I didn't take the 6.1 patch, I can't take this one yet either :(

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2024-10-09  6:19 [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Leak pages if set_memory_encrypted() fails libo.chen.cn
2024-10-09 13:34 ` Greg KH [this message]

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