CVE-2021-47228
Published: May 21, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/ioremap: Map EFI-reserved memory as encrypted for SEV Some drivers require memory that is marked as EFI boot services data. In order for this memory to not be re-used by the kernel after ExitBootServices(), efi_mem_reserve() is used to preserve it by inserting a new EFI memory descriptor and marking it with the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute. Under SEV, memory marked with the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute needs to be mapped encrypted by Linux, otherwise the kernel might crash at boot like below: EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x3597688770a868b2: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 13 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.12.4-2-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:efi_mokvar_entry_next [...] Call Trace: efi_mokvar_sysfs_init ? efi_mokvar_table_init do_one_initcall ? __kmalloc kernel_init_freeable ? rest_init kernel_init ret_from_fork Expand the __ioremap_check_other() function to additionally check for this other type of boot data reserved at runtime and indicate that it should be mapped encrypted for an SEV guest. [ bp: Massage commit message. ]
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 - < 208bb686e7fa7fff16e8fa78ff0db34aa9acdbd7affected 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 - < b7a05aba39f733ec337c5b952e112dd2dc4fc404affected 58c909022a5a56cd1d9e89c8c5461fd1f6a27bb5 - < 8d651ee9c71bb12fc0c8eb2786b66cbe5aa3e43b |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.10unaffected 0 - < 5.10unaffected 5.10.46 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.12.13 - <= 5.12.*unaffected 5.13 - <= * |
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