CVE-2025-38351
Published: Jul 19, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86/hyper-v: Skip non-canonical addresses during PV TLB flush In KVM guests with Hyper-V hypercalls enabled, the hypercalls HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_LIST and HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_LIST_EX allow a guest to request invalidation of portions of a virtual TLB. For this, the hypercall parameter includes a list of GVAs that are supposed to be invalidated. However, when non-canonical GVAs are passed, there is currently no filtering in place and they are eventually passed to checked invocations of INVVPID on Intel / INVLPGA on AMD. While AMD's INVLPGA silently ignores non-canonical addresses (effectively a no-op), Intel's INVVPID explicitly signals VM-Fail and ultimately triggers the WARN_ONCE in invvpid_error(): invvpid failed: ext=0x0 vpid=1 gva=0xaaaaaaaaaaaaa000 WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 326 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:482 invvpid_error+0x91/0xa0 [kvm_intel] Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm 9pnet_virtio irqbypass fuse CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 326 Comm: kvm-vm Not tainted 6.15.0 #14 PREEMPT(voluntary) RIP: 0010:invvpid_error+0x91/0xa0 [kvm_intel] Call Trace: vmx_flush_tlb_gva+0x320/0x490 [kvm_intel] kvm_hv_vcpu_flush_tlb+0x24f/0x4f0 [kvm] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x3013/0x5810 [kvm] Hyper-V documents that invalid GVAs (those that are beyond a partition's GVA space) are to be ignored. While not completely clear whether this ruling also applies to non-canonical GVAs, it is likely fine to make that assumption, and manual testing on Azure confirms "real" Hyper-V interprets the specification in the same way. Skip non-canonical GVAs when processing the list of address to avoid tripping the INVVPID failure. Alternatively, KVM could filter out "bad" GVAs before inserting into the FIFO, but practically speaking the only downside of pushing validation to the final processing is that doing so is suboptimal for the guest, and no well-behaved guest will request TLB flushes for non-canonical addresses.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 260970862c88b4130e9e12be023c7e2c2d37a966 - < d5784ea45663330eaa868c518ea40e7a9f06aa2daffected 260970862c88b4130e9e12be023c7e2c2d37a966 - < f1b3ad11ec11c88ba9f79a73d27d4cda3f80fb24affected 260970862c88b4130e9e12be023c7e2c2d37a966 - < 2d4dea3f76510c0afe3f18c910f647b816f7d566affected 260970862c88b4130e9e12be023c7e2c2d37a966 - < fa787ac07b3ceb56dd88a62d1866038498e96230 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.2unaffected 0 - < 6.2unaffected 6.6.103 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.12.41 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.15.7 - <= 6.15.*+1 more versions |
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