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authorCarlos López <clopez@suse.de>2026-05-12 12:00:42 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2026-05-20 18:03:17 -0700
commitfd948c3f96b18ff9ba7d3e8eae13d196593e1aaf (patch)
tree2d854ba60f3546278d4cd6bcda1a2f1425ffb6c0
parent44126343d58c68adaa8343fbf1c07dd20078c35e (diff)
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virt: sev-guest: Explicitly leak pages in unknown state
When set_memory_{encrypted,decrypted}() fail, the user cannot know at which point the function failed, meaning that the pages are left in an unknown state from the point of view of the caller. Since the pages may be left in an unencrypted state, they are not suitable for general use, and cannot be returned safely to the buddy allocator. Avoid the issue by never freeing the pages, and then do the proper accounting by calling snp_leak_pages(). Fixes: 3e385c0d6ce8 ("virt: sev-guest: Move SNP Guest Request data pages handling under snp_cmd_mutex") Signed-off-by: Carlos López <clopez@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
-rw-r--r--drivers/virt/coco/sev-guest/sev-guest.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virt/coco/sev-guest/sev-guest.c b/drivers/virt/coco/sev-guest/sev-guest.c
index 910a1de0d5a7..d186ae55cf63 100644
--- a/drivers/virt/coco/sev-guest/sev-guest.c
+++ b/drivers/virt/coco/sev-guest/sev-guest.c
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ static int get_ext_report(struct snp_guest_dev *snp_dev, struct snp_guest_reques
struct snp_guest_req req = {};
int ret, npages = 0, resp_len;
sockptr_t certs_address;
+ u64 pfn;
if (sockptr_is_null(io->req_data) || sockptr_is_null(io->resp_data))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -215,10 +216,11 @@ static int get_ext_report(struct snp_guest_dev *snp_dev, struct snp_guest_reques
if (!req.certs_data)
return -ENOMEM;
+ pfn = PHYS_PFN(virt_to_phys(req.certs_data));
ret = set_memory_decrypted((unsigned long)req.certs_data, npages);
if (ret) {
pr_err("failed to mark page shared, ret=%d\n", ret);
- free_pages_exact(req.certs_data, npages << PAGE_SHIFT);
+ snp_leak_pages(pfn, npages);
return -EFAULT;
}
@@ -272,10 +274,12 @@ e_free:
kfree(report_resp);
e_free_data:
if (npages) {
- if (set_memory_encrypted((unsigned long)req.certs_data, npages))
+ if (set_memory_encrypted((unsigned long)req.certs_data, npages)) {
WARN_ONCE(ret, "failed to restore encryption mask (leak it)\n");
- else
+ snp_leak_pages(pfn, npages);
+ } else {
free_pages_exact(req.certs_data, npages << PAGE_SHIFT);
+ }
}
return ret;
}