In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64: tlb: Fix TLBI RANGE operand
KVM/arm64 relies on TLBI RANGE feature to flush TLBs when the dirty pages are collected by VMM and the page table entries become write protected during live migration. Unfortunately, the operand passed to the TLBI RANGE instruction isn't correctly sorted out due to the commit 117940aa6e5f ("KVM: arm64: Define kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range()"). It leads to crash on the destination VM after live migration because TLBs aren't flushed completely and some of the dirty pages are missed.
For example, I have a VM where 8GB memory is assigned, starting from 0x40000000 (1GB). Note that the host has 4KB as the base page size. In the middile of migration, kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range() is executed to flush TLBs. It passes MAX_TLBI_RANGE_PAGES as the argument to __kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range() and __flush_s2_tlb_range_op(). SCALE#3 and NUM#31, corresponding to MAX_TLBI_RANGE_PAGES, isn't supported by __TLBI_RANGE_NUM(). In this specific case, -1 has been returned from __TLBI_RANGE_NUM() for SCALE#3/2/1/0 and rejected by the loop in the __flush_tlb_range_op() until the variable @scale underflows and becomes -9, 0xffff708000040000 is set as the operand. The operand is wrong since it's sorted out by __TLBI_VADDR_RANGE() according to invalid @scale and @num.
Fix it by extending __TLBI_RANGE_NUM() to support the combination of SCALE#3 and NUM#31. With the changes, [-1 31] instead of [-1 30] can be returned from the macro, meaning the TLBs for 0x200000 pages in the above example can be flushed in one shoot with SCALE#3 and NUM#31. The macro TLBI_RANGE_MASK is dropped since no one uses it any more. The comments are also adjusted accordingly.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.4
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade linux | Jul 27, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | May 20, 2024 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade dtb-socionextUpgrade kernel-default-baseUpgrade ocfs2-kmp-defaultUpgrade kernel-develUpgrade reiserfs-kmp-defaultUpgrade dtb-amdUpgrade dtb-mediatekUpgrade cluster-md-kmp-64kbUpgrade dtb-hisiliconUpgrade dtb-renesasUpgrade kernel-azure-optionalUpgrade dtb-sprdUpgrade kselftests-kmp-rtUpgrade kernel-rt_debug-develUpgrade kernel-docsUpgrade gfs2-kmp-defaultUpgrade dtb-xilinxUpgrade reiserfs-kmp-rtUpgrade kernel-source-vanillaUpgrade kernel-debug-develUpgrade kernel-default-livepatchUpgrade kernel-64kb-optionalUpgrade dtb-nvidiaUpgrade kernel-default-livepatch-develUpgrade kernel-rt-develUpgrade kselftests-kmp-azureUpgrade kernel-64kb-extraUpgrade dtb-allwinnerUpgrade kernel-symsUpgrade kernel-debugUpgrade cluster-md-kmp-rtUpgrade kernel-debug-vdsoUpgrade kernel-default-vdsoUpgrade dtb-appleUpgrade kernel-64kb-develUpgrade dtb-alteraUpgrade kernel-azureUpgrade kernel-azure-extraUpgrade dlm-kmp-rtUpgrade kernel-devel-rtUpgrade dlm-kmp-defaultUpgrade kernel-default-optionalUpgrade kernel-rt-livepatchUpgrade kernel-rt_debug-livepatch-develUpgrade kernel-defaultUpgrade ocfs2-kmp-azureUpgrade dtb-caviumUpgrade gfs2-kmp-azureUpgrade dtb-exynosUpgrade kernel-obs-buildUpgrade cluster-md-kmp-azureUpgrade cluster-md-kmp-defaultUpgrade kernel-source-azureUpgrade gfs2-kmp-rtUpgrade kernel-default-base-rebuildUpgrade dlm-kmp-azureUpgrade dtb-apmUpgrade kernel-64kbUpgrade kernel-default-develUpgrade kernel-rt-vdsoUpgrade kernel-azure-develUpgrade ocfs2-kmp-64kbUpgrade reiserfs-kmp-azureUpgrade kernel-rtUpgrade kernel-syms-rtUpgrade kernel-rt_debug-vdsoUpgrade dtb-marvellUpgrade dtb-lgUpgrade dlm-kmp-64kbUpgrade kernel-sourceUpgrade reiserfs-kmp-64kbUpgrade kselftests-kmp-64kbUpgrade dtb-amazonUpgrade kernel-kvmsmall-vdsoUpgrade gfs2-kmp-64kbUpgrade dtb-broadcomUpgrade dtb-freescaleUpgrade kernel-devel-azureUpgrade kernel-azure-vdsoUpgrade kernel-azure-livepatch-develUpgrade kernel-source-rtUpgrade kernel-kvmsmallUpgrade kernel-macrosUpgrade kselftests-kmp-defaultUpgrade kernel-syms-azureUpgrade kernel-rt-livepatch-develUpgrade dtb-rockchipUpgrade dtb-qcomUpgrade kernel-zfcpdumpUpgrade kernel-rt-extraUpgrade ocfs2-kmp-rtUpgrade dtb-armUpgrade dtb-amlogicUpgrade kernel-docs-htmlUpgrade kernel-rt_debugUpgrade kernel-rt-optionalUpgrade kernel-obs-qaUpgrade kernel-kvmsmall-develUpgrade kernel-default-extra | Dec 5, 2025 | Nov 13, 2024 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade linux-image-genericUpgrade linux-image-gcpUpgrade linux-image-oracleUpgrade linux-image-lowlatency-64kUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1008-oracleUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1007-raspiUpgrade linux-image-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1008-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-virtualUpgrade linux-image-oem-24.04aUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-38-genericUpgrade linux-image-gkeUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1011-awsUpgrade linux-image-virtual-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1010-gcpUpgrade linux-image-oem-24.04Upgrade linux-image-intelUpgrade linux-image-nvidiaUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1010-azureUpgrade linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-64kUpgrade linux-image-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1009-nvidia-64kUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1007-intelUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1009-nvidiaUpgrade linux-image-ibm-lts-24.04Upgrade linux-image-awsUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-38-lowlatency-64kUpgrade linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-lpaeUpgrade linux-image-ibm-classicUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1006-gkeUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1008-ibmUpgrade linux-image-kvmUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-38-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-38-lowlatencyUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1008-oemUpgrade linux-image-lowlatencyUpgrade linux-image-raspiUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1010-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-azureUpgrade linux-image-ibm | Jul 12, 2024 | May 20, 2024 |
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