KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit() Use is_64_bit_hypercall() instead of is_64_bit_mode() to detect a 64-bit hypercall when completing said hypercall. For guests with protected state, e.g. SEV-ES and SEV-SNP, KVM must assume the hypercall was made in 64-bit mode as the vCPU state needed to detect 64-bit mode is unavailable. Hacking the sev_smoke_test selftest to generate a KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE hypercall via VMGEXIT trips the WARN: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 273 PID: 326626 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.h:180 complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm] Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm ... [last unloaded: kvm] CPU: 273 UID: 0 PID: 326626 Comm: sev_smoke_test Not tainted 6.12.0-smp--392e932fa0f3-feat #470 Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20240617.0-0 06/17/2024 RIP: 0010:complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm] Call Trace: kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2400/0x2720 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x54f/0x630 [kvm] __se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x83/0x160 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.15.176, 6.1.122, 6.12.7, 6.6.68
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-55881
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 15:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit()
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 11 Jan 2025, 12:35 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Play nice with protected guests in complete_hypercall_exit() Use is_64_bit_hypercall() instead of is_64_bit_mode() to detect a 64-bit hypercall when completing said hypercall. For guests with protected state, e.g. SEV-ES and SEV-SNP, KVM must assume the hypercall was made in 64-bit mode as the vCPU state needed to detect 64-bit mode is unavailable. Hacking the sev_smoke_test selftest to generate a KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE hypercall via VMGEXIT trips the WARN: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 273 PID: 326626 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.h:180 complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm] Modules linked in: kvm_amd kvm ... [last unloaded: kvm] CPU: 273 UID: 0 PID: 326626 Comm: sev_smoke_test Not tainted 6.12.0-smp--392e932fa0f3-feat #470 Hardware name: Google Astoria/astoria, BIOS 0.20240617.0-0 06/17/2024 RIP: 0010:complete_hypercall_exit+0x44/0xe0 [kvm] Call Trace: kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2400/0x2720 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x54f/0x630 [kvm] __se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x83/0x160 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
osv:CVE-2024-55881
Kernel
Fixed versions: 5.15.176, 6.1.122, 6.6.68, 6.12.7
Complete source record
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