arm64: tlb: Flush walk cache when unsharing PMD tables
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64: tlb: Flush walk cache when unsharing PMD tables
When huge_pmd_unshare() is called to unshare a PMD table, the
tlb_unshare_pmd_ptdesc() function sets tlb->unshared_tables=true
but the aarch64 tlb_flush() only checked tlb->freed_tables to
determine whether to use TLBF_NONE (vae1is, invalidates walk
cache) or TLBF_NOWALKCACHE (vale1is, leaf-only).
This caused the stale PMD page table entry to remain in the walk cache
after unshare, potentially leading to incorrect page table walks.
Fix by including unshared_tables in the check, so that when
unsharing tables, TLBF_NONE is used and the walk cache is properly
invalidated.
Here is the detailed distinction between vae1is and vale1is:
| Instruction Combination | Actual Invalidation Scope |
| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------|
| `VAE1IS` + TTL=`0` | All entries at all levels (full invalidation) |
| `VAE1IS` + TTL=`2` (L2) | Non-leaf at Level 0/1 + leaf at Level 2 |
| `VALE1IS` + TTL=`0` | Leaf entries at all levels (non-leaf not cleared) |
| `VALE1IS` + TTL=`2` (L2) | Leaf entry at Level 2 only |
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0199c9d57861f17b556b6cba1f765c7cce79745bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47490bbb05c8c0e09cc3cfd237d8934ffc340583https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48125cd9c55cbe297b59fd1f9bda48b0960bd181https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ca7284da0e67b3e71d90ec17f08286774245ad9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2ff4764e03e7a8d758352f4aceb8fe1be6ac971https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d766a49d9b55705c4737cd8bb5d3faa2d31330fdhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dced308d7d6a0de1c09d2058f38f1aaaf5cbb914https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe93e907b1af03cc229a80aa64a570a103d2b279