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authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2026-04-10 09:20:04 +0200
committerJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>2026-04-23 15:32:59 +0200
commit24daca4fc07f3ff8cd0e3f629cd982187f48436a (patch)
tree30dffceb6ca8433730f2168d4cf5dcb535ce0caf
parent27fdbab4221b375de54bf91919798d88520c6e28 (diff)
xen/privcmd: fix double free via VMA splitting
privcmd_vm_ops defines .close (privcmd_close), but neither .may_split nor .open. When userspace does a partial munmap() on a privcmd mapping, the kernel splits the VMA via __split_vma(). Since may_split is NULL, the split is allowed. vm_area_dup() copies vm_private_data (a pages array allocated in alloc_empty_pages()) into the new VMA without any fixup, because there is no .open callback. Both VMAs now point to the same pages array. When the unmapped portion is closed, privcmd_close() calls: - xen_unmap_domain_gfn_range() - xen_free_unpopulated_pages() - kvfree(pages) The surviving VMA still holds the dangling pointer. When it is later destroyed, the same sequence runs again, which leads to a double free. Fix this issue by adding a .may_split callback denying the VMA split. This is XSA-487 / CVE-2026-31787 Fixes: d71f513985c2 ("xen: privcmd: support autotranslated physmap guests.") Reported-by: Atharva Vartak <atharva.a.vartak@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Atharva Vartak <atharva.a.vartak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/privcmd.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
index 15ba592236e8..725a49a0eee7 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
@@ -1620,6 +1620,12 @@ static void privcmd_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
kvfree(pages);
}
+static int privcmd_may_split(struct vm_area_struct *area, unsigned long addr)
+{
+ /* Forbid splitting, avoids double free via privcmd_close(). */
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
static vm_fault_t privcmd_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
{
printk(KERN_DEBUG "privcmd_fault: vma=%p %lx-%lx, pgoff=%lx, uv=%p\n",
@@ -1631,6 +1637,7 @@ static vm_fault_t privcmd_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
static const struct vm_operations_struct privcmd_vm_ops = {
.close = privcmd_close,
+ .may_split = privcmd_may_split,
.fault = privcmd_fault
};