{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47094","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  KVM: x86/mmu: Don't advance iterator after restart due to yielding  After dropping mmu_lock in the TDP MMU, restart the iterator during tdp_iter_next() and do not advance the iterator.  Advancing the iterator results in skipping the top-level SPTE and all its children, which is fatal if any of the skipped SPTEs were not visited before yielding.  When zapping all SPTEs, i.e. when min_level == root_level, restarting the iter and then invoking tdp_iter_next() is always fatal if the current gfn has as a valid SPTE, as advancing the iterator results in try_step_side() skipping the current gfn, which wasn't visited before yielding.  Sprinkle WARNs on iter-\u003eyielded being true in various helpers that are often used in conjunction with yielding, and tag the helper with __must_check to reduce the probabily of improper usage.  Failing to zap a top-level SPTE manifests in one of two ways.  If a valid SPTE is skipped by both kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_all() and kvm_tdp_mmu_put_root(), the shadow page will be leaked and KVM will WARN accordingly.    WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3509 at arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c:46 [kvm]   RIP: 0010:kvm_mmu_uninit_tdp_mmu+0x3e/0x50 [kvm]   Call Trace:    \u003cTASK\u003e    kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x130/0x1b0 [kvm]    kvm_destroy_vm+0x162/0x2a0 [kvm]    kvm_vcpu_release+0x34/0x60 [kvm]    __fput+0x82/0x240    task_work_run+0x5c/0x90    do_exit+0x364/0xa10    ? futex_unqueue+0x38/0x60    do_group_exit+0x33/0xa0    get_signal+0x155/0x850    arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xed/0x750    exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xc5/0x120    syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40    do_syscall_64+0x48/0xc0    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae  If kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_all() skips a gfn/SPTE but that SPTE is then zapped by kvm_tdp_mmu_put_root(), KVM triggers a use-after-free in the form of marking a struct page as dirty/accessed after it has been put back on the free list.  This directly triggers a WARN due to encountering a page with page_count() == 0, but it can also lead to data corruption and additional errors in the kernel.    WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1995658 at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:171   RIP: 0010:kvm_is_zone_device_pfn.part.0+0x9e/0xd0 [kvm]   Call Trace:    \u003cTASK\u003e    kvm_set_pfn_dirty+0x120/0x1d0 [kvm]    __handle_changed_spte+0x92e/0xca0 [kvm]    __handle_changed_spte+0x63c/0xca0 [kvm]    __handle_changed_spte+0x63c/0xca0 [kvm]    __handle_changed_spte+0x63c/0xca0 [kvm]    zap_gfn_range+0x549/0x620 [kvm]    kvm_tdp_mmu_put_root+0x1b6/0x270 [kvm]    mmu_free_root_page+0x219/0x2c0 [kvm]    kvm_mmu_free_roots+0x1b4/0x4e0 [kvm]    kvm_mmu_unload+0x1c/0xa0 [kvm]    kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x1f2/0x5c0 [kvm]    kvm_put_kvm+0x3b1/0x8b0 [kvm]    kvm_vcpu_release+0x4e/0x70 [kvm]    __fput+0x1f7/0x8c0    task_work_run+0xf8/0x1a0    do_exit+0x97b/0x2230    do_group_exit+0xda/0x2a0    get_signal+0x3be/0x1e50    arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x244/0x17f0    exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xcb/0x120    syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40    do_syscall_64+0x4d/0x90    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae  Note, the underlying bug existed even before commit 1af4a96025b3 (\"KVM: x86/mmu: Yield in TDU MMU iter even if no SPTES changed\") moved calls to tdp_mmu_iter_cond_resched() to the beginning of loops, as KVM could still incorrectly advance past a top-level entry when yielding on a lower-level entry.  But with respect to leaking shadow pages, the bug was introduced by yielding before processing the current gfn.  Alternatively, tdp_mmu_iter_cond_resched() could simply fall through, or callers could jump to their \"retry\" label.  The downside of that approach is that tdp_mmu_iter_cond_resched() _must_ be called before anything else in the loop, and there's no easy way to enfornce that requirement.  Ideally, KVM would handling the cond_resched() fully within the iterator macro (the code is actually quite clean) and avoid this entire class of bugs, but that is extremely difficult do wh ---truncated---","modified":"2026-09-15T09:02:35.246088500Z","published":"2024-03-04T18:15:07.837Z","upstream":["CVE-2021-47094"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-47094"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.15-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47094.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.15-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47094.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.15-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47094.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}