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Commit 42baefac638f06314298087394b982ead9ec444b upstream. gnttab_end_foreign_access() is used to free a grant reference and optionally to free the associated page. In case the grant is still in use by the other side processing is being deferred. This leads to a problem in case no page to be freed is specified by the caller: the caller doesn't know that the page is still mapped by the other side and thus should not be used for other purposes. The correct way to handle this situation is to take an additional reference to the granted page in case handling is being deferred and to drop that reference when the grant reference could be freed finally. This requires that there are no users of gnttab_end_foreign_access() left directly repurposing the granted page after the call, as this might result in clobbered data or information leaks via the not yet freed grant reference. This is part of CVE-2022-23041 / XSA-396. Reported-by: Simon Gaiser <simon@invisiblethingslab.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.